I think voting is still needed. AFAIK there is no such thing as unofficial releases. These are only unstable so upstream projects don't need to rely on snapshot dependencies. But what concerns the AFS they are still official.
Michael On 23 September 2014 09:12, Amit Jain <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > * should we go through the voting system for this as well? >> > Since, they are unofficial releases I think there is no need for voting. > > The steps outlined at [1] should also work for this process. > > [1] http://jackrabbit.apache.org/creating-releases.html
