On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Raul Kripalani <ra...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Yakov Zhdanov <yzhda...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Raul, every build submitted for vote is RC (so, on first iteration this > > will be 1.5.0-EA-RC1). Once accepted RC gets stripped off and we get > > official release. My idea is to have EA available via maven and from the > > website. > > > > Aha, I see. I'm not sure I like the idea of pushing the EA to Maven Central > and making it live there perpetually. After 3 years, we would still have an > 1.5.0.EA there. > Red Hat is a company that uses EAs quite often. They have a separate Maven > repo for them, from which they prune the EAs once they become GA. > > I prefer that we publish a RC1 to a staging repo and inform our users via > mailing list. All they'd have to do to take 1.5.0-RC1 for a spin is add the > staging repo to their pom.xml. > Raul, personally, I am more in favor of adding the EA to Maven. Having it there forever does not really scare me. It will be a lot easier for the community to take the release for a spin without having some special instructions. Moreover, I imagine that many users will jump on it as well, as it sounds like the release is pretty close to the production-ready state. > > *Raúl Kripalani* > PMC & Committer @ Apache Ignite, Apache Camel | Integration, Big Data and > Messaging Engineer > http://about.me/raulkripalani | http://www.linkedin.com/in/raulkripalani > http://blog.raulkr.net | twitter: @raulvk >
