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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:07:27 +0200
From: "Bertrand Delacretaz" <bdelacretaz@apache.org>
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Subject: Re: On incubating releases
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On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Jukka Zitting <jukka.zitting@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...Upayavira made a good point about the difference between endorsing a
> release and endorsing a project. The way I see it, the ASF endorses a
> release when the binding release vote passes. A project is endorsed
> when it graduates from the Incubator....

Yes - we endorse the release but make no promises that the podling
will stay around.

> ...Do people think that we shouldn't make such a distinction, or that we
> should perhaps explicitly consider "community quality" as a release
> criteria?...

I find the distinction good, and I don't think we should consider
community quality for podling releases - that is only relevant for
graduation IMO.

-Bertrand

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