On Jun 15, 2004, at 2:46 AM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Mind you, building an end-user community is not an incubation
> priority. We
> care about IP and development community, and the latter ought to be
> able to
> participate directly from source control. Specifically, a comment
> like "it
> is important to get out official (incubation) release files soon since
> users
> and developers are waiting for a release to base their productive
> environments on" makes me nervous. We don't want people assuming that
> code
> in the Incubator has the same imprimatur as code from ASF projects. I
> try
> to avoid the term "release" in connection with anything related to the
> Incubator because in Jakarta terminology, a "Release Build" is an
> official
> production package, and that is not going to come from the Incubator.
> The
> focus ought to be on being able to leave the incubator, not putting out
> builds. But insofar as having feedback helps to build the developer
> community, that's worth supporting, IMO, so long as the nature of
> being in
> the Incubator is properly marked and explained.
Perfect. I was reading through this thread and going to make the point
if no one else did, but you did it as I would have, so I'll just add...
+1
geir
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