On 15.08.2013 12:24, Robbie Gemmell wrote: > On 15 August 2013 09:46, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On 14.08.2013 22:04, Rafael Schloming wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> There's been a bunch of fixes now from RC1 testing, so I figured it's >>> about time to put out an RC2. You can find it here, please check it out: >>> >>> Source tarball: >>> http://people.apache.org/~rhs/qpid-proton-0.5rc2/ >>> <http://people.apache.org/%7Erhs/qpid-proton-0.5rc2/> >> Just a small nit: infra frowns upon distributing releases from minotaur >> (i.e., people.apache.org). The SOP is to commit them to the dist >> repository, e.g., >> >> https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/qpid-proton >> >> The benefit of doing that is that the releases get distributed to >> mirrors, and eventually end up on archive.apache.org. >> >> > This wasn't a GA release, I thought it was frowned upon to mirror such > things and that hosting them on minotaur (or the dev/test dist area) was > ok, as per http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#host-rc and previous > emails on the subject to commiters@ ?
Ah, I missed that the "release candidate" is actually for internal consumption (or so it seems). I was confused because over at Subversion, RCs are public releases like any other and go through the same process. -- Brane
