The original question in this thread is much less generic than in the linked one though, so it's certainly easier to answer. Just as a reminder, the specialities are these:
- This project already have suffixless releases from before incubation, which are widely used. If the incubation fails, those versions won't be any better that the incubating ones. After all, ASF won't go around and delete those releases from the Maven Central, from SF.net, etc. - The project doesn't have an org.apache.* Maven groupId, nor a such Java package (in 2.x.x, because of backward compatibility, and we are talking about 2.x.x only here). So as far as I see it's quite unlikely that the user will see "Apache" without "incubating" because we have removed it from the *Maven* version number, at least if we change <name>Apache FreeMarker</name> in the POM to <name>Apache FreeMarker (incubating)</name>. -- Thanks, Daniel Dekany Saturday, December 31, 2016, 1:50:02 PM, Martijn Dashorst wrote: > For reference, please read this thread from 2008: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0b6c065a908c5f9ec39fa78c31b39c83a6fea29eb34fada0ee070413@1222432864@%3Cgeneral.incubator.apache.org%3E > > It has all the arguments for and against the -incubating versioning > label, and why the disclaimer exists. Warning: it is long (I haven't > even reached the conclusion after about an hour of reading). > > It goes of a bit about releasing through Maven, and some quibles with > central repository management and releases and other politics, but it > should be enlightening to see all positions. Read it with an open mind > and don't look only for the bits that support your position, but try > to understand the other side as well. > > Martijn > > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Jacopo Cappellato > <jacopo.cappell...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Martijn Dashorst < >> martijn.dasho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> Freemarker has been in incubation for 17 months. What do you need to >>> learn and do before you will start your graduation vote? >>> >> >> In my opinion the Freemarker project would be ready to successfully pass a >> graduation vote and a discussion thread is going on in the project's >> mailing list; based on how the conversation is going the community may >> decide to wait a few more weeks in order to try to attract some committers. >> However I think that the topic discussed in this thread (about the concern >> that the "-incubating" suffix may mislead the consumers about the stability >> of a software product) is a valid one; even if its output will not probably >> affect Freemarker (that could be a TLP by then). >> >> Jacopo > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
