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Robbie Gemmell commented on MNG-7435:
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It is foundation policy that projects must only direct regular users to
download releases, which is why other things like snapshots arent on the
download page.
> Make SNAPSHOTS more accessible
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> Key: MNG-7435
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7435
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Christoph Läubrich
> Priority: Major
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> As discussed in the context of [another
> issue|https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/pull/24285] it would help people
> to constantly test and report issues before a release if SNAPSHOTS (and
> staged releases of course) are more accessible.
> Just form a users point of view, if I currently go to
> https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi I see the current release and I can
> access older releases but there is no link or hint to upcoming releases.
> Even though one could build this from sources, its not always that easy to
> set that all up, I think it would be useful if there is an automated process
> that deploys the current SNAPSHOT in an automated way (including the binary
> release) and on the download page there is a link to this with the hint to
> help with testing of "previews" or something alike e.g. for maven4 and maven
> 3.x.
> This hopefully makes it more visible and attract users to just try out new
> versions before the release.
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