On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 05:55:53PM -0500, Rob Weir wrote: >> And btw, just so you can see that I'm not just making stuff up, please >> note the ASF Releases Policy page: >> >> "What Is A Release? > > [...] > >> http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html >> >> Hopefully that is clearer than my unsuccessfully attempts at explaining this. > > None of which applies to what I originally intended to say: replace > people.apache.org with apache-extras, dropbox, or whatever; it's simply > the same as what I started doing by the end last year/beginning of these > year providing the first binaries packages, now applied only to language > packs. It won't be something published, the general public won't be > instructed to download them. >
Uh, you're the one who brought up your Linux-glibc2.5 work, not I. That work was done in your name and is on the porting page, with a suitable disclaimer. Aside from the use of people.apache.org I don't see a problem here. If there is a bandwidth concern that is between you and Infra. But with the language builds, this is something else. If they are to be useful they need to be updated, Maybe they start identical to 3.4.1, at 80% or whatever. But as work progresses, to 85%, 95%, 995, etc., we need them refreshed for continued testing. So this does then become pre-release software and falls under existing ASF policy. Of course, you are free to take pre-release code and post it on some other website, but I'd oppose linking to it from project websites. Regards, -Rob > So far I only planned this for Linux-glibc2.5, I may build also for > Windows, but not for MacOS. > > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina
