Re: ant 1.6.0 released

[Antoine Lévy-Lambert <an...@antbuild.com>]

Erik Abele wrote:

Hi Erik,

I was doing my first full release of ant. I was just concerned that some 
people might try starting their download right after the announcement. I 
found out that the  mirroring took place within the next 8 or 9 hours 
after the actual release. I will indicate 
http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi next time I do a release,
Cheers,
Antoine

>> From: Antoine Lévy-Lambert <an...@apache.org>
>> Date: 18. December 2003 23:24:49 CET
>> To: announce@apache.org
>> Subject: ant 1.6.0 released
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> ant 1.6.0 is released !!!
>>
>> The version will hopefully soon be available from all mirrors.
>>
>> If you encounter difficulties    doing the download, select
>> www.apache.org/dist in the combo box of the download page, and then
>> hit the <change> button.
>
>
> Antoine,
>
> would it be possible to just put the new packages on www.apache.org/dist/
> and wait ~ 24h before announcing the new release so that all the 
> mirrors could
> pick up the new stuff and so that the above 'trick' could be omitted 
> safely?
>
> Would this interfere with Ant's release flow or the release manger's 
> schedule?
> Or did you encounter any problems with mirrors being out-of-date or 
> with the
> mirroring system in general?
>
> IMHO, a link to http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi should be 
> sufficient and
> given the enormous amount of work which was done to bring our mirroring
> system to life and to hide www.apache.org/dist/ from the public, I 
> find it quite
> counter-productive to see a description on how to circumvent the 
> mirroring
> system.
>
> In fact, the only link in the announcement points to 
> www.apache.org/dist/,
> whereas http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi isn't mentioned at all :-(
>
> Btw, we usually try to make sure, that all mirrors update at least 
> once a day;
> you can check this by yourself at www.apache.org/mirrors/ (currently only
> < 2% of all mirrors have issues in some way).
>
> Please don't see this as a flame, I'm just trying to find out if there 
> are any
> problems we can help to fix...
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
>
> p.s.: happy new year and btw, Ant 1.6.0 rocks!
>
>



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