I started a discussion in Airflow and I hope we will just remove them and stop releasing them [1].
We publish some releases on GitHub, but, to be perfectly honest, I never saw value in them and that nagging feeling always bothered me a bit :). This thread made me realise they might be actively harmful. So ... it happens even for well-established projects. Thanks for raising the subject, Justin, PJ, Sebb, Dave, Piotr, Sometimes you just do not know why something is nagging you, and then suddenly someone explains it clearly... and then you know. I agree there is absolutely no reason to publish GH releases and it's actively harmful. We should all stop doing it. Maybe we should have an automated check run by someone (infra/tooling?) It always also bothers me when you say "things should never happen" but fail to take action to ensure it does not happen and ask people to fix it. That sounds a bit like "I have strong opinion, but I know it does and I can't do anything about - so Iit am closing a blind eye on it", Is there a way we would like to enforce it? Who can do it? Or do we not care that some projects do it? [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/wc49rx24j09r87mgs2t6vpf1rtbtr6gf On Sat, May 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM Piotr Gankiewicz <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the info, I've updated all releases under ASF with the > missing incubating disclaimer. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
