We've had some discussion about ways to reduce the cost of releasing and ways to allow maintainers of subprojects to make more frequent maintenance releases. In [1] we proposed allowing maintenance/patch releases on which we vote only to approve the source package, unlike our quarterly major releases, where we vote on the source and on most binary packages as well. Maintainers of the various implementations and subprojects may choose to build and publish binary artifacts from these patch release sources after the release vote, if there are relevant bug fixes in the patch release. This procedure will allow us to make patch releases more easily, and we maintain our shared mapping between a GitHub tag/commit and a release number across all subprojects.
Please vote whether to adopt the patch release procedure. The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. [ ] +1 Allow source-only patch release votes [ ] +0 [ ] -1 Do not allow source-only patch release votes because... Here is my vote: +1 Thanks, Neal [1]: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0ff484bcf8e410730ddcba447ff0610e7138f16d035c43a4015da187%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E
