: If we are comfortable with distributing RC materials outside of Apache : channels, then yes. I'm not clear on that. Have other ASF projects done : something similar? If nobody knows, perhaps we might ask on general@incubator?
I agree that asking on general@incubator would be a good idea to get more perspective. My own opinion is that even if the PMC were to do it "officially" then it wouldn't be much different then PMCs that publish maven SNAPSHOT builds to ibiblio (and in the ways that it is different it's better because it would only be RCs under formal vote) But this doesn't have to be anything "official" by the PMC ... the RM/PMC put up a Source RC for people to test -- part of the testing that some third party person (or a community member wearing a diff hat) can do is to use that Source RC to generate a langauge specific dist and upload that dist to a repo like CPAN (clearly labeled as an unofficial RC/beta build) -- and that should be totally fine. if "TRIAL" is the CPAN specific way of clearly labeling things as unofficial, then so be it. -Hoss
