Thanks Sean O. I was thinking something like "NOTE: Nightly builds are
meant for development and testing purposes. They do not go through
Apache's release auditing process and are not official releases."

- Patrick

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> (This sounds pretty good to me. Mark it developers-only, not formally
> tested by the community, etc.)
>
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Sean B.,
>>
>> Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I think putting them on the
>> developer wiki would substantially decrease visibility in a way that
>> is not beneficial to the project - this feature was specifically
>> requested by developers from other projects that integrate with Spark.
>>
>> If the concern underlying that policy is that snapshot builds could be
>> misconstrued as formal releases, I think it would work to put a very
>> clear disclaimer explaining the difference directly adjacent to the
>> link. That's arguably more explicit than just moving the same text to
>> a different page.
>>
>> The formal policy asks us not to include links "that encourage
>> non-developers to download" the builds. Stating clearly that the
>> audience for those links is developers, in my interpretation that
>> would satisfy the letter and spirit of this policy.
>>
>> - Patrick
>>

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