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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:16:01 +0200
From: Thilo Goetz <twgoetz@gmx.de>
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Subject: Incubator releases in central maven repo, was: [VOTE][policy] Release
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Robert,

this is great, thanks.  I don't want to muddy the
waters, but is it time to bring up the maven repo
question again as well?  If incubator releases *are*
official releases, is there a reason not to upload
maven artifacts to the central repository?

--Thilo

Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
> infrastructure asks that all official releases are distributed from
> subdirectories of /www.apache.org/dist. this means that infrastructure
> team can gaurantee the availability and security of releases.  podling
> releases are official releases by the Incubator project. the
> disclaimers we ask projects to include ensure that users understand
> their status.
> 
> therefore (as a matter of policy) these releases should be made
> available from within http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator but this is
> not made clear in Incubator policy. here is a policy patch that makes
> this clear:
> 
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-62
> 
> AIUI most current releases are store elsewhere. i'm willing to perform
> the necessary rationalisation work.
> 
> moving releases into dist does highlight issues about long term
> availability and security of releases but i think that these are best
> discussed in separate threads.
> 
> i'd like to ask the IPMC to approve this policy clarification.
> 
> here's my +1
> 
> - robert
> 
> --8<-----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ ] +1 Insist that releases are distributed within
> http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator
> [ ] +0
> [ ] -0
> [ ] -1 Do not apply this policy patch (reasons appreciated)
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