Not to belabor this discussion, but: On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:23 AM, Chris Hostetter wrote:
> : > 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. > > ok .. so it's repository.apache.org instead of ibiblio -- but the point is > still the same: unofficial builds (which are clearly identified as > unofficial) are distributed using langauge specific mechanisms for > the purposes of user testing. Right, they are decidedly "unofficial" as far as the ASF is concerned, but not as far as downstream consumers who may never download a build from the ASF, but will get it via Maven are concerned. > The fact that maven is an apache project > so that language specific mechanism happens to be an apache.org server > doesn't really seem relevant to the point... > > https://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-testing-development-plugins.html > > ...and in any case, those are trunk snapshots, and we're talking about > release candidates. The *same* process for repository.apache.org for snapshots exists for RCs. > the point of release candiates is to be tested by end > users before the release becomes official, so i can't see any objection to > making end-products produced from those release candidates (clearly labled > as such) available for users who are interested in testing them via the > channel that they would normally use. Nominally I agree with you but I know there is a set of others at the ASF that don't, e.g., sebb to name one. Anyways, I'll drop it. 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
