[incubator-plc4x] branch develop updated: - Added a section on cleaning up old releases to the release documentation.

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     new 6df09b7  - Added a section on cleaning up old releases to the release documentation.
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commit 6df09b783979a7910eb0fd5e82f79c94d2ffa375
Author: Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>
AuthorDate: Tue Feb 26 13:42:05 2019 +0100

    - Added a section on cleaning up old releases to the release documentation.
---
 src/site/asciidoc/developers/release.adoc | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/site/asciidoc/developers/release.adoc b/src/site/asciidoc/developers/release.adoc
index d1e6cb3..9b08f77 100644
--- a/src/site/asciidoc/developers/release.adoc
+++ b/src/site/asciidoc/developers/release.adoc
@@ -480,6 +480,16 @@ This will make the release artifacts available and will trigger them being copie
 
 This is also the reason why you should wait at least 24 hours before sending out the release notification emails.
 
+=== Cleaning up older release versions
+
+As a lot of mirrors are serving our releases, it is the Apache policy to clean old releases from the repo if newer versions are released.
+
+This can be done like this:
+
+    svn delete https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/plc4x/0.2.0-incubating/ -m"deleted version 0.2.0"
+
+After this https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/plc4x should only contain the latest release directory.
+
 === Releasing the Maven artifacts
 
 The probably simplest part is releasing the Maven artifacts.