On 30/12/2015 14:55, Daniel Dekany wrote: > Hello, > > We at project FreeMarker intend to issue a Release Candidate under > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/. Note that it's just > "dev", not "release". There will be both source and binary RC release > artifacts. As I understand, this so far doesn't require any voting, as > it will be the subject of the later voting (on dev@freemaker first). > > The binary artifact will be linked on the top of the FreeMarker > homepage for testing for one month. At least this is how it was done > prior ASF. An RC like that used to have around a 50-100 downloads > during the RC period (plus the Maven staging repo downloads), so > hopefully it's not a technical issue that it's a download directly > from "repos". > > Is this procedure OK in ASF? I mean, we *kind of* publish something > that wasn't voted on, at least not on incubator general.
No. RC's should not be visible to ordinary users. It is OK to link to them from the developer pages (the ones that point to source repos, explain who to provide patches etc,) but not from anywhere that is not developer focussed. Similarly, you can announce them on developer mailing lists but not user mailing lists. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
