IIRC, that was discussed back in the days when Maven started to become popular. And since ASF projects/podlings like to provide those convenience artifacts, and that most Maven users never see the source tarballs, it was concluded that those Maven artifacts needed the 'mark'.
//Niclas On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since the only official release is the source release, perhaps that's > the only place where we in fact need a policy? > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 9:39 PM, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> > wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes <st...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > >> I think formally the requirement is just that there is "incubating" > >> somewhere in the released downloadables, it doesn't have to be part of > >> the version number > >> > > > > Originally it was a matter of the user can't avoid notice that the > project > > is incubating. So anywhere, he/she can enter it as a dependency it needed > > to be present. Since many uses Maven, that meant it had to be part of > > group, artifact, version or classifier. If the project only releases a > > source tarball, then it needs to go onto that, and so on. > > > > > > Cheers > > -- > > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java
