On Apr 12, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org>wrote: > >> >> On Apr 11, 2010, at 11:50 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: >> >>> +1 (on trust, really) >> >> Not to pick on Ted here, but this is not something you should do. If you >> don't have time to download and verify the artifacts, please don't vote, as >> the vote is meaningless at best. No vote is better than an unverified vote. >> >> -Grant > > > I agree. > > But we are talking about releasing a component that is not used yet. That > means that the down-side to the release is essentially nil.
There are legal ramifications to doing a release that need to be validated by the PMC.