Hi Subbu

How are these releases made and what are they useful for?

Generally, it’s not good to have unofficial unvoted releases, and having
these visible links on GitHub can be confusing. To me the biggest concern
is github doesn’t give you a way to note these are unofficial and
unsupported releases. But even if there is a place to write note it can
still be confusing as this is the same place other non-ASF projects have
releases.

Can I suggest to remove these for now?

I think you can mitigate this with tag or commit id for now. Hopefully the
community can build from source from this point in time references.

Also it might be a good move to version branching structure. This is
commonly done in other projects and it gives an easy access to point in
time reference, and in the future release and maintanence.

(I see there is also one release from Dec 2018 - that’s after entering
incubation AFAIK)



On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 4:30 PM Subbu Subramaniam <ssubraman...@linkedin.com>
wrote:

> Hi Felix/Kishore,
>
> Justin has pointed out that we (Pinot) have snapshot releases that are not
> through the apache web site, and in his opinion these need to be removed.
> He has suggested that we discuss with our mentors and put out an
> appropriate note in this month's podling report.
>
> IIRC these releases were present before we incubated into apache.  We
> would like to keep them there until we get the first release out via apache.
> We are working hard to get the first release out this quarter.
>
> Do you suggest that we take them out, or let them be until the end of the
> quarter. We don't know if there are users that are using these images.
>
> thanks,
>
> -Subbu
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Justin Mclean <jmcl...@apache.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 29, 2019 3:09 PM
> *To:* Subbu Subramaniam
> *Cc:* dev@pinot.apache.org
> *Subject:* Re: Unapproved releases
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it sufficient if we write that the snapshots in the links are
> unofficial snapshots of Pinot, and that we are working on a formal apache
> release?
>
>
> No you are no allowed to make unofficial releases that are public in this
> way. IMO they need to be removed.
>
> It would be best to discuss this with your mentors and see what they have
> to say.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>

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