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Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 23:51:53 +0100
Subject: Re: Getting the distribution onto a download site somewhere ...
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From: robert burrell donkin <rdonkin@apache.org>
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On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 07:54 AM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:

> Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>
>> See http://httpd.apache.org/dev/release.html for the httpd project's
>> guidelines.  They use the term "release" the way that Jakarta projects 
>> will
>> use the term "build", but the overall effect is the same.  See
>> http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi for a description of the
>> guidelines used by Jakarta and related projects.
>
> Thanks, understood. In that case, I'd hold my argument, that the 
> incubated project requires the ability for Releases in order to attract 
> external users and build a community.

FWIW

my experience at jakarta has been that momentum is much more important 
than Releases. in fact, some of the most talked about new java products 
here at apache (maven, jelly, geronimo) have never had a Release.

- robert


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