Wednesday, December 28, 2016, 2:09:11 PM, John D. Ament wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 5:35 AM Daniel Dekany <ddek...@freemail.hu> wrote:
> Wednesday, December 28, 2016, 4:12:06 AM, Christopher wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> The one complication here is that the release artifact (source tarball) is
>> most easily created with a maven project by using the maven-assembly-plugin
>> with the source tarball assembly defined in the ASF-wide parent POM.
>
> I'm not sure how hard it would be to set up the POM so that it
> produces an assembly with the "-incubating" suffix even if the project
> version doesn't contain it. Anyway, some extra release steps during
> incubation can be better than troubling the users (developers who
> depend on your project) with an additional groupId change or with a
> non-standard version suffix. There are much more users than people who
> do releases after all.
>
> Do you need to add the -incubating suffix via maven?  When staging
> the release in dev, you can name the file as you like.  Even if not,
> maven assembly adds a suffix for you.  you can name your execution 
> -src-incubating to include it.

Yes, I guess it's not a problem even for Maven-based projects, that
was my point. The FreeMarker build is not Maven-based, and it can
already do this.

-- 
Thanks,
 Daniel Dekany


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