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Subject: Re: When to do "Official Apache Releases"
From: Marcel Kinard <cmarcelk@gmail.com>
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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 09:20:57 -0400
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+1 to still do these for each cadence release.

I'm in a somewhat unique situation where Cordova gets bundled as a =
downstream distribution into a vendor product. The vendor product uses =
the Cordova native platforms and core plugins that get embedded in the =
product, the product doesn't fetch any code from git or npm. And the =
product itself doesn't get installed in an npm-like way.  There isn't =
dynamic updates or dependency fetching. As we bundle those downstream =
distributions, I'm very used to using the official apache release =
tarballs.

I'm fine with it being just the native platforms and docs. We don't =
embed the Cordova docs in the product, we just link out to =
cordova.apache.org/docs.

And it would feel weird for an Apache project to not publish source =
releases.

I nobody else wants to invest the time to publish an official apache =
release to dist.apache.org, then I can own that.

-- Marcel

On Sep 3, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org> wrote:

> It's been mentioned before, but with CLI, there's not a lot of utility =
in
> doing official apache releases (uploading signed zips to =
dist.apache.org).
>=20
> I don't think we should stop doing these entirely, but should we still =
do
> these for each Cadence Release? An alternative would be to do them =
only
> once / twice a year.
>=20
> Any thoughts on why / why not?
>=20
> Andrew