Hey Guys, On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Chris Hostetter wrote:
> > : 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. +1. > > 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) This doesn't really happen anymore as I understand it. Folks who want to do this go to http://repository.apache.org/ and then upload their artifacts to the Nexus server there, and then when the RC is released, and then closed, the released RC gets sync'ed to Maven Central at some specified interval. So even these releases go through Apache still. Cheers, Chris ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
