The code you are about to download is a Release Candidate for Apache Serf.
A Release Candidate is exactly what it sounds like: a distribution of Apache Serf that may become an official release later, if and only if it passes preliminary testing by those members of the community who are interested in testing it.
If you are looking for a copy of Apache Serf for production use, this is not it; you should instead grab the latest stable release from the Download area.
If you are interested in helping us test this Release Candidate, you're very welcome to download and test these packages, and report bugs back to the developers; but please keep in mind that this is not a final release of Apache Serf, so only use it on data you aren't afraid to lose.
As stated above, this is not an official, end-user release of Apache Serf. It is a distribution intended for testing only, and is not suitable for production use. It has not been publicly announced.
Packages with alpha, beta, or rc in their names will remain unsuitable for production use even they have been publicly announced; if you chose to package such a pre-release for your operating system distro's management system, you must do so in a way which clearly denotes that it is not a final release, and is only for testing purposes.
And please don't package anything you see here before it has been publicly announced.
We encourage RC testing by users who know how to install from a tarball independently of their OS's packaging system. Users who install only packaged releases, however, should wait for and use only officially released Apache Serf. Anything else is playing with fire. When the inevitable blowup happens, both your reputation as a packager and Apache Serf's reputation will suffer -- but only one will deserve it.
If you want to help us test this distribution of Serf, you can find the files here.