I believe Chris was being a bit facetious. The ASF guidance is right, that it's important people don't consume non-blessed snapshot builds as like other releases. The intended audience is developers and so the easiest default policy is to only advertise the snapshots where only developers are likely to be looking.
That said, they're not secret or confidential, and while this probably should go to dev@, it's not a sin to mention the name of snapshots on user@, as long as these disclaimers are clear too. I'd rather a user understand the full picture, than find the snapshots and not understand any of the context. On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 2:11 AM, Jacek Laskowski <ja...@japila.pl> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > With my ASF member hat on... > > Oh, come on, Chris. It's not "in violation of ASF policies" > whatsoever. Policies are for ASF developers not for users. Honestly, I > was surprised to read the note in Mark Hamstra's email. It's very > restrictive but it says about what committers and PMCs should do not > users: > > "Do not include any links on the project website that might encourage > non-developers to download and use nightly builds, snapshots, release > candidates, or any other similar package." > > Pozdrawiam, > Jacek Laskowski > ---- > https://medium.com/@jaceklaskowski/ > Mastering Apache Spark 2.0 http://bit.ly/mastering-apache-spark > Follow me at https://twitter.com/jaceklaskowski --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org
