I agree with Stian. It was discussed ~12-14 years ago, how to deal with "release for public consumption", "release for beta testers", "nightly builds" and so on. And AFAIR, the Stian's explanation mirrors the consensus from back then, and perhaps the wording is not optimal.
Niclas On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:31 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> wrote: > Hang on, it's perfectly fine for ASF projects to publish and link to > milestone/alpha/beta releases - as long as they have also gone through > a formal release VOTE and checking, they are still "official > releases". > > http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#release-types > > What is confusing about your quoted pagraph is that it uses the > terminology "not full official releases" misleadingly -- but those > should still be "official releases" - just not at a "stable" or > "general availability" maturity level. > > What is NOT ok is to link from the download page to a non-voted on > SNAPSHOT build or similar. That is quite clearly explained in > http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html - but perhaps not on > release-download-pages.html. > > On 7 December 2016 at 12:31, John D. Ament <johndam...@apache.org> wrote: > > The following text is found on > > http://www.apache.org/dev/release-download-pages.html#links (4th bullet > in > > that section) > > > > Artifacts which are not full official releases (for example, milestones, > > betas and alphas) may be linked from the download page. Links to these > > artifacts should be removed in a timely fashion. > > > > I believe it's missing a "not" and should be > > > > Artifacts which are not full official releases (for example, milestones, > > betas and alphas) may not be linked from the download page. Links to > these > > artifacts should be removed in a timely fashion. > > > > -- > Stian Soiland-Reyes > http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
