On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Chris Hostetter <hossman_luc...@fucit.org> wrote: > > : > The reason for the email is not that I can't find them, but because > : > the project, I claim, should be advertising them more prominently on > : > the web site than buried in a wiki. > : > : Actually they are linked on the hp but unfortunately not directly: > : http://lucene.apache.org/solr/#21+February+2006%3A+nightly+builds > > http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what > "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. The only people who are supposed > to know about such packages are the people following the dev list (or > searching its archives) and thus aware of the conditions placed on the > package." > > For these reasons, we speicifly do not link to nightly builds off the main > website (but we also don't retroactively edit news from 2006)
Given that prose, I can see why you have done what you've done. I don't agree with the prose, but that's another story for another location. Though I guess the author would probably respond to me by encouraging me to encourage you to vote and formally release beta or alphas or something to give brave people exposure to new features. > > We do however mention/link to the nightly build system on the wiki pages > targeted at developers. > > > -Hoss >
