An RC is something that gets voted on, and the final one is turned into a blessed release. I agree that RCs don't get published to Maven Central, but releases do of course.
This was certainly to be an official release, right? A beta or alpha can still be an official, published release. The proximate motivation was to solve a problem of advertising "Apache Spark 2.0.0 preview" in a product, when no such release existed from the ASF. Hence the point was to produce a full regular release, and I think that needs to include the usual Maven artifacts. I'd think we want less effort, not more, to let people test it? for example, right now I can't easily try my product build against 2.0.0-preview. On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Marcelo Vanzin <van...@cloudera.com> wrote: > So are RCs, aren't they? > > Personally I'm fine with not releasing to maven central. Any extra > effort needed by regular users to use a preview / RC is good with me. > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: >> To play devil's advocate, previews are technically not RCs. They are >> actually voted releases. >> >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Michael Armbrust <mich...@databricks.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Yeah, we don't usually publish RCs to central, right? >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> They are here ain't they? >>>> >>>> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachespark-1182/ >>>> >>>> Did you mean publishing them to maven central? My understanding is that >>>> publishing to maven central isn't a required step of doing theses. This >>>> might be a good opportunity to discuss that. My thought is that it is since >>>> Maven central is immutable, and the purposes of the preview releases are to >>>> get people to test it early on in preparation for the actual release, it >>>> might be better to not publish preview releases to maven central. Users >>>> testing with preview releases can just use the temporary repository above. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Just checked and they are still not published this week. Can these be >>>>> published ASAP to complete the 2.0.0-preview release? >>>> >>>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Marcelo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org
