I think what you are referring to is here: https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#source-packages
Based on this we probably cannot simply release the docker image. We could decide to not release the maven artifacts though, but that seems to be a minor difference and probably not worth it. Gyula On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 2:19 PM Gyula Fóra <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Chesnay, these are exactly the questions I would like to clarify > because I don't really understand the limitations/boundaries of the apache > release process. > > Is there a strict requirement to have a source release accompany the > docker image? I will have to look this up. > > Gyula > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 2:16 PM Chesnay Schepler <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 14/06/2022 14:10, Gyula Fóra wrote: >> > For the operator the main logic (and the bugs) are part of the operator >> > docker image and the helm charts associated with it. It would be nice >> to be >> > able to have lightweight patch releases that only contain the docker >> > image + updated Helm chart. >> > >> > This would allow us to give users new docker image releases in a short >> > period of time with reduced testing and voting overhead (these patch >> > releases could have a shorter voting period also). >> >> I'm not sure if this is allowed because it sounds like you're proposing >> to release binaries without an associated source release >> >>
