On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:48 AM, Ivan Kelly <iv...@apache.org> wrote: > >> (maybe I missed something here) I checked the maven release process. the > >> versioning is about the binary/source distribution, which we are doing > the > >> same thing, no? > > maven.apache.org seems down right now :/. I'll check later. > Ok, their release doc does say "The version used should be the > eventual version with -RC1, -RC2, etc. appended.", but they don't seem > to have been following this for a couple of years. >
As I said, '-RC' suffix is for binary and source distributions, which we are doing exactly the same thing. I don't think maven itself push things to artifactory. > > Guava, although not an apache project, uses the suffix > https://github.com/google/guava/blob/v23.0-rc1/pom.xml. > I don't think the "RC" has the same meaning here in the ASF projects. If you just take a look their releases, you will know a "RC" is an actual "release" and public to all the users. You can check this on maven central. There are tons of RC versions: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.guava/guava/23.0-rc1 > > -Ivan >
