For me, the key is the "official release" - an official release has been voted on by the relevant PMC and approved for use. The labeling of it - alpha, beta, etc is moot. Maybe we should take out that part and instead use:
Only release artifacts that have been approved by the relevant PMC may be linked from the download page. All other download links should be removed in a timely fashion. ? On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 8:32 PM Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> wrote: > 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 >
