OK thanks, makes sense, then RC-s at FreeMarker will go through the same process as final releases (except that they don't go to stable Maven Repo-s such as the Central).
This, however, means that sometimes we will have two "latest releases" under http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/freemarker/engine/, like 2.3.24-incubating/ and 2.3.25-incubating-rc1/. I hope that's fine. (The release policy says "/www.apache.org/dist should contain the latest release in each branch that is currently under development.", which doesn't strictly stand here.) Wednesday, December 30, 2015, 9:33:27 PM, John D. Ament wrote: > Perhaps once way to deal with this is to formally vote on the RC so > that it is official, even if it keeps the RC name. > > John > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 3:15 PM Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> > wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > Have a look through Apache's offical _Release Policy_ and _Release > Distribution Policy_ documents. > > http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy > http://www.apache.org/dev/release-distribution > > Those policy documents (not the accompanying FAQs, just the Policies) are > canonical. > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Daniel Dekany <ddek...@freemail.hu> wrote: > >> 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". > > Good so far... the `dev` section of `dist.apache.org` is precisely the right > place to upload release candidates to share with other members of the > FreeMarker dev community. > >> There will be both source and binary RC release artifacts. > > OK, but please note the source and binary archives are not equal. The source > archive is the official release and (from the perspective of the Foundation) > the binary is optional. > >> 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). > > Correct -- putting the RC archive into the `dev` section of `dist.apache.org` > does not require previous PMC approval. > >> 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". > > There are two problems here. > > First, please do not expose unreleased materials to people outside the dev > community. > > http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy#publication > > ... Projects MUST direct outsiders towards official releases rather than > raw source repositories, nightly builds, snapshots, release candidates, or > any other similar packages. The only people who are supposed to know about > such developer resources are individuals actively participating in > development or following the dev list and thus aware of the conditions > placed on unreleased materials. > > Second, please do not provide any direct links to the ASF's subversion > repositories from public-facing download pages. This holds not only for > release candidates but also for approved official releases. Anything that > ends up in the `release` section of `dist.apache.org` is also available from > the ASF mirror network -- please use the mirror network for distribution to > the general public. > >> Is this procedure OK in ASF? I mean, we *kind of* publish something >> that wasn't voted on, at least not on incubator general. > > If it is important to you for the user community to test out a version of the > software before it become official, the solution is to run two VOTEs: one for > the beta (or whatever you want to call it) and one for the final release. > > Hope this helps, > > Marvin Humphrey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
