Hi Some companies provide EA releases in maven:
https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/com/hazelcast/hazelcast/3.6-EA/ On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Raul Kripalani <ra...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Yakov Zhdanov <yzhda...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > 1. I see nothing wrong in having EA perpetually available. I would even > > prefer all vendors to keep all EA versions available just for tracking > and > > history purposes. > > > > We have opposite views here. To me, early access versions are ephemeral. > They are only legit until the final version is released. By doing that, you > run the risk that "forgetful" users who once tried an EA, keep using it > forever even after GA is released. > > In other words, what you are proposing to do – to push an EA to Maven > Central – is equivalent to Microsoft packaging Windows 11 Early Access in a > box and putting it on sale forever. And keeping it on sale even after > Windows 11 GA, Windows 12 GA, Windows 13 GA (Americans would probably skip > that :)), etc. are released decades after. > > No company or project does that, to my knowledge. I would consider it an > anti-pattern. > > Regards, > > *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 > -- Sergey Kozlov
