Hi all, when thinking about the release process I also thought about whether we should provide only source (as is the theory of the ASF) or if we should also provide binary packages. I think the latter is better to make it easier for users to download and run the server.
I checked the gene...@incubator.apache.org<mailto:gene...@incubator.apache.org> list and found this thread to be most relevant for us [1]. It concludes that binary packages are “allowed” with a release. This is compliant with the release policy [2]. So I suggest to add binaries for the server in the release and add a download link for them like many other projects do. Of course, we should also provide all artifacts via maven, as lots of ASF projects do. Are there any objections by our mentors (or others) for doing that? Julian [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ceb357513ff0403414b5fff7dbeb1ea43961e71f9e48425d6e3cea8f@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E [2] http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#compiled-packages
