Subversion cut a release while in incubation on their old system. Shouldn't pose a problem for others.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@apache.org> wrote: > Hey folks, > > Hopefully quick policy question here: > > Once a project is under proposal for incubation, what is the foundation > policy on that project making releases outside of Apache from its current > home? > > For example, suppose there's an open source project FooBar, with a public > release FooBar 1.0.0 in use by various people out in the world. FooBar is > then proposed to the incubator. During the discussion/voting timeframe, > someone discovers a bug in FooBar 1.0.0, and the team would like to release > FooBar 1.0.1 from the project's current home (eg github). Would this be an > issue? > > More controversial variant: > > How about early during the incubation period, while the project is still in > the process of transitioning the necessary infrastructure, etc, into the > ASF repositories? Assuming that the project is making good faith efforts > towards making a release compatible with ASF guidelines, would it be > allowed to make "external" releases during this initial period of > incubation, for the purposes of bug fixes? > > Thanks > Todd >
