AFAIK a SNAPSHOT has not been voted on and is therefore not a formal ASF release.
So for example this would cover CI builds that deploy jars to the ASF Maven SNAPSHOT repo. On 20 August 2015 at 23:33, Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Gavin McDonald <ga...@16degrees.com.au> > wrote: >> So what do we do about all the rc1|rc2|rcx ,alphas, betas and Milestone >> ‘releases’ that are on our official mirrors right now? >> >> (Because they would have been voted on as a ‘’release’’ for the projects to >> put them there in the first place) > > "Release" means different things in different contexts. An ASF > release is a product that a PMC has vetted to meet ASF release > standards (builds from source, APL2 licensed) and has made available > to end-users in our download services. This use of "release" deals > with legal and "can-be-modified" promises made to the end-user. > > Various ASF projects also use "release" to mean something different -- > a community-approved product that has a certain API and typically has > no known issues. This use of "release" generally deals with technical > aspects of the project, such as stability and reliability. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
