Understood. For projects that are in alpha stage, would it be reasonable to relax the voting requirement to a 1 day vote period, where at least 1 PMC member must vote to approve (rather than the 3 vote requirement)?
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 4:58 PM, Julian Hyde <jh...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Sep 7, 2017, at 7:06 PM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I personally don't have a problem with subcomponents publishing >> artifacts to package managers outside of the primary Apache project >> votes and releases, so long as they clearly signal that these package >> builds are for development and not voted-on artifacts published on >> behalf of the PMC. Does this seem reasonable? > > I can see how this would be useful, but it is in breach of Apache policy. In > Apache there is no “publish” process other than the release process. > > People can of course build directly from git. > > Some projects have snapshots and nightly builds inside of apache (for running > tests and so forth) but they shouldn’t publish externally or advertise these > as permanent in any way. > > If we need to make an alpha release say twice a week, let’s do that. We can > change policy to expedite the voting process, I believe. > > Julian >
