Hey Alan, On 3/21/13 8:03 AM, "Alan Gates" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >On Mar 20, 2013, at 11:16 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: > >> Hi Alan, >> >> [..snip..] >>> >>> If I understand correctly your goal here is not a release (at least not >>> yet), but rather to produce shared snapshots for people. If that's >>> correct, then putting it on people.apache.org and calling it something >>> that doesn't have RC in the name is fine. In Apache speak RC means >>> something people are going to vote on to release. Just call it >>> knox-0.2.0-SNAPSHOT. That's what I've seen most projects do for their >>> maven nightly uploads. >> >> Can you name such projects? They're probably not doing the (socially) >> right thing, but infra@ just hasn't caught them yet. >> >> If you don't want to name them (based on that) that's cool too ;) >> >> But yeah, putting things we don't intend to release at Apache on >> people.a.o is not really best practice since arguably people.a.o >> isn't there to share files, especially non authoritative releases that >> could be considered releases (or RCs) by their place and name. > >I think we have some confusion here. I was not saying that any projects >I know of post nightly snapshots on people.apache.org, nor was I >suggesting that be done in Knox on a regular basis. Kevin had something >he wanted to share right now and since the infrastructure wasn't there it >seemed like the best place to do it. > >What I was saying about other projects was how they name their nightly >snapshots, which is <project_name>-<anticipated_next_version>-SNAPSHOT. >All the projects I am involved in (Pig, Hive, HCatalog) upload their >nightly snapshots to maven, which Knox may also want to do at some point >in the future. Ahh yes, I was confused (happens enough times ;) ). Sorry about that Alan! Cheers, Chris
