I think that there is a conflation of issues at play here that I would like to tease out,
#1 What are the essential characteristics of the missing "release" that some believe disadvantage us #2 What is the ban on labs releases intended to achieve and knowing these two things can we interpolate a solution that simultaneously satisfies both 1&2? d/ On 8 March 2017 at 21:07, Dennis Gove <dpg...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a fan of not allowing official releases from @labs. There's an implied > contract with an Apache release and I suspect a project in @labs wouldn't > (necessarily) be able to live up to that (nor should they feel they have > to). If a project is at a point where it can live up to the contract of an > official release, maybe that is one of the deciding factors in moving out > of @labs into the incubator. > > That said, perhaps there a way to support a type of release so a @labs > project could gain additional traction. Perhaps a requirement that the > version include "-LABS", or "-SNAPSHOT", or other to clearly indicate via > the version that the release is not official. > > - Dennis > > On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea <hzbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Well, there was an implied "as of now" :). You're obviously correct (and >> don't call me Shirley, sorry couldn't resist). >> >> That said, as I mentioned a while ago, wouldn't this make it sort of an >> incubator@ competitor? There were many proposals and suggestions made in >> the past. I am sure you're aware of them, but I'd recommend new subscribers >> go read the archives. >> >> Cheers, >> Hadrian >> >> On 03/08/2017 03:24 PM, Rich Bowen wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 03/08/2017 02:02 PM, Hadrian Zbarcea wrote: >>> >>>> one cannot release from labs >>>> >>> >>> Surely this is one of the points that we are here to debate, not merely >>> accept as being a fact in stone? >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: labs-unsubscr...@labs.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: labs-h...@labs.apache.org
