I dont see the automatic snapshots as a problem. We should not ask "all" users to use them, but for single users that may be ok. They are "testing" (means DEV) the current/upcoming version against their (problematic) scenario.
Jan > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Gintautas Grigelionis [mailto:g.grigelio...@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Samstag, 17. März 2018 22:49 > An: Ant Developers List > Betreff: Re: Snapshot access to regular users of Ant > > Thanks for pointing this out. To me, it means one thing: release more > often. > The way I read it, publishing is not forbidden per se, but rather > advertising. > That's consistent with GitHub repo clones being available, but without > "clone me at GitHub" ribbons. > > On the other hand, I rewrote the manual (which was still talking about > CVS), suggesting that the proper way to propose code changes would be a > GitHub PR rather than an archive uploaded to Bugzilla, so please > correct me if I'm wrong before Ant 1.10.3 gets released... > > Gintas > > 2018-03-17 13:07 GMT+01:00 Jaikiran Pai <jai.forums2...@gmail.com>: > > > I was about to send a mail to the user mailing list about the Ant > > nightly job which publishes the daily snapshots, so that they can > test > > some bug fixes and new features (JUnit 5 in particular). However, I > > happened to read the Apache release policy[1] which states regular > > users aren't even meant to know about such snapshots. > > > > That seems a bit too restrictive, especially for open source > projects. > > Is that documentation being followed and if it is, then I guess I > > shouldn't be letting the user@ mailing list know about these > snapshots > > nor ask them to test out the new feature? > > > > After reading that policy, I'm starting to wonder if the Jenkins job > > should even publish these snapshots. > > > > [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#publication > > > > -Jaikiran > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional > > commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
