Dirk-Willem, Is "nightly build" an appropriate term for developer convenience snapshots? That is how the Apache SOAP web site refers to these.
Is your list of what "releases are" captured as policy somewhere on an apache.org Web page? I thought there was such a page, but I cannot find it right now. I want to be sure the next true release of Apache SOAP follows all the rules. Thanks. Scott Nichol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dirk-Willem van Gulik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 4:41 AM Subject: Re: Apache license update On Apr 8, 2004, at 3:11 AM, Scott Nichol wrote: > There is a new "nightly" release at > http://cvs.apache.org/dist/soap/nightly/2004-04-07/. Folks - a gentle nudge:- try to avoid calling those things things 'releases'. They aint. They are just developer convenience snapshots. Releases are: -> official distributions of the ASF -> have gone through an explicit peer reviewed process with due announcement. -> And to prove the above we have the required +1 votes of multiple commiters on file in our repository. -> Are tagged as such in CVS so we can go back easily should there be claims. Whereas the tarball above is an uncontrolled snapshot to aid developers and collaborators. The difference is important as the ASF is on the hook for its official releases/distributions - and in order to protect developers from each other; and allow the ASF to protect the developers we must show oversight and due process when creating those releases. That aside from the fact that a significant reason for the ASFs its market share/popularity is the consistently high quality and predictability - which can directly be attributed to the fact that we do do peer review and oversight; and that it we're not a collection of one mans shops. Dw -- Dirk-Willem van Gulik, President of the Apache Software Foundation.
