Hi sebb and justin, thanks to your suggestion. I have polished our quick start doc and provided simple steps to build from official Apache release.
Also, we will use the mirror site link in our next release announcement. Regards, yukon On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Von Gosling <vongosl...@apache.org> wrote: > Thanks sebb and justin suggestion. I have looked at some other Apache > TLPs, including justin’s link[1]. We will consider to polish quick-start > guide using ASF proved release :-) > > > [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#host-rc < > http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#host-rc> > > > Best Regards, > Von Gosling > > > 在 2017年12月19日，08:06，sebb <seb...@gmail.com> 写道： > > > > On 18 December 2017 at 23:13, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com> > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Also, the quickstart page > >> https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/quick-start/ > >> says to clone the development branch of the code. > >> > >> Only source that has been formally approved by the PMC should be > advertised. > >> > >> > >> I’m not sure that applies to source code just to unproved releases. > i.e. you > > > > Source code is the primary output of ASF projects. > > > >> can’t post links to unproved releases like nightly builds and the like > [1] > >> (and even some projects do this) e.g. [3] but make it clear it’s not an > >> official build. Many top level projects I’ve looked at include links to > the > >> work in progress repo and some projects have no distinction between > master > >> and develop. > > > > That does not make it right. > > It also depends which part of the website has the links. > > It's OK to link to the repo from pages intended for developers, but > > not from pages intended for the general public. > > > >> Perhaps just change that page and suggest that people use the download > page > >> [2] to get an official release above where that the repo information is > >> listed and note that the develop branch may contain code that is not in > an > >> official release? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Justin > >> > >> 1. http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#host-rc > >> 2. https://rocketmq.apache.org/dowloading/releases/ > >> 3. https://ant.apache.org/nightlies.html > >
