Rick Hillegas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Kathey Marsden wrote: >> Bryan Pendleton wrote: >>> >>> During the process of developing software and preparing a release, >>> various packages are made available to the developer community for >>> testing purposes. Do not include any links on the project website that >>> might encourage non-developers to download and use nightly builds, >>> snapshots, release candidates, or any other similar package. The only >>> people who are supposed to know about such packages are the people >>> following the dev list (or searching its archives) and thus aware >>> of the conditions placed on the package. >> Seems downright anti-open source to me. Users can be made aware of >> the conditions and can be a valuable resource in vetting a release >> candidate or beta. But I guess I shouldn't get started. It;s not my >> decision to make. >> >> Kathey >> >> > I agree: by discouraging broader testing of our release candidates, > this policy reduces the quality of Apache releases.
I tend to agree. Only publishing betas on derby-dev seems like it would exclude many would-be beta testers. -- dt
