Re: [winery-dev] Pre-Releases

[Oliver Kopp <kopp.dev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

per co-incidence, the same question was rised at the incubation mailing list with a very positive answer (see below).

* Mail source: https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/incubation/msg00395.html

* Developer handbook will be updated: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=519320

Cheers,

Oliver

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From: Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2017-07-06 11:24 GMT+02:00
Subject: Re: [incubation] Release process
To: incubation@xxxxxxxxxxx

Rémi,

Just do no call it a release.  Don't use that word to describe what you've making available/redistributing.  Of course almost all projects do nightly, integration, milestone, and release candidate builds and make those available as p2 update sites or otherwise for their consumers.  You can do the same.  A release review is only required to produce a release and you can do that when you feel the code is in a quality state that you feel comfortable can be represented as a stable release for your consumers.

Regards,
Ed

2017-07-03 17:21 GMT+02:00 Oliver Kopp <kopp.dev@xxxxxxxxx>:

Dear mentors,

I am still in preparation of a release of Winery. I checked
https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#release and wonder whether
and how pre-releases are possible.

Setting: In a project, I want to version Winery and give away
snapshots. Taken, I want to release v2.0.0, I assume, I can "release"
v2.0.0-SNAPSHOT-2017-07-03. Including a respective tag on github to be
able to distribute a compiled snapshot and the corresponding source
code. For sure, not (fully) IP checked and not an official release.

I searched also
https://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/development_process_2010.php#4_2_Code_and_Releases
and found "A Project in the Incubation Phase with two Mentors may make
a pre-1.0 Release", but I do not find, what is the condition and the
process for such a release.

Does someone know how to do that? Or should I distribute full releases
only? But I'd like to distribute development snapshots somehow...

Cheers,

Oliver