On 9/3/13 5:09 PM, "Justin Mclean" <justinmcl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi, > >An issue just come up on the incubator general list about nightly builds. >[1] > >The installer lets you download the nightly build, and while convenient >it looks like it's actually against Apache release guidelines [2]: >"If the general public is being instructed to download a package, then >that package has been released. Each PMC must obey the ASF requirements >on approving any release." >and >" Do not include any links on the project website that might encourage >non-developers to download and use nightly builds, snapshots, release >candidates, or any other similar package." > >We probably need to remove that from the installer. Perhaps an >alternative is it only show via a command line flag or "I am a SDK >developer" check box with a big disclaimer about it not being an official >release etc etc I don't know that we are "encouraging" folks to use it any more than the various nightly build pages for several Apache projects. Google "Apache Nightly". What VXQuery was doing is having its default installation instructions pull right from SVN. A simpler 'fix' might be to rename the "Flex SDK Nightly" to "Flex SDK Nightly (unsupported)", then we are clearly not "encouraging". In the next release, we can add an alert that warns you even more, but I think the name change might be good enough for now. -Alex
