Hi, as you all know, our community releases take a longer time to get out currently. I would like to propose a discussion about a different release model for our community. Here is the proposal, I am curious about your feedback and what you think about it.
1. The community would follow a release process similar to OpenJDK. This means, that the release would consists only from sources that can be used to build the binaries and artifacts. 2. No binary builds would be published as part of Apache KIE community. 3. With the source code available, it would be up to vendors or anyone else to decide, if they want to publish their own binaries built out of the community sources. This would enable multiple various sets of binaries to be available, similarly as with OpenJDK (e.g. there are Temurin builds, IBM builds, Oracle builds, etc.). 4. No vendor can publish under existing Apache KIE groupIds and similar artifact group names. This would mean, we could regularly release the source code with new functionalities and anyone who finds it beneficial to publish a set of binaries from the sources, can do so. We may even have those binaries vendors published on our Apache KIE website. Looking forward to your feedback and discussion! I know it is a very different to what we do now and I know that it would make it harder for people that use the community binaries directly, however if enough vendors of binaries jump on this, it shouldn't be a problem. Best regards, Tibor
