While Apache considers a release to be source code, the rest of the world considers a release to be JAR files on Maven Central. Unless I'm mistaken, releasing the binaries before a vote completes would not be an acceptable thing to do.
-JZ On Jul 24, 2013, at 7:40 PM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think that a release vote should block patches getting applied, we > have very advance SCM that have well known patterns to overcome that. > > But I agree, the vote thing can be blamed on the mentors, we were all on > vacation or busy with other commitments.
