Thanks Sean. That reflects my sentiments so well! 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
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 1:08 AM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote: > 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
