Release Builds and Mirroring

["Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>]

[From infrastructure mailing list]

Those of us who are doing the Release builds and mirroring work should pay
attention to Justin Erenkrantz's comment about what to do with old releases.
In case it isn't me at some point, I thought it worth noting, since
infrastructure@ isn't archived.

	--- Noel

Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> Stefano Mazzocchi  wrote:
> > those are not minor releases. Those are "releases", a release is
> > something that you might build your stuff upon. It's a contract.
> > Books, for example, use these contracts for years (before a new
> > edition outdates another one, but that edition can still be used)

> Correct.  If you look at our new mirroring guidelines
> (http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html), we're attempting to
> advocate keeping releases in a stable place forever.  For example,
> cocoon 2.0.4 source should always be available at:
> http://www.apache.org/dist/xml/cocoon/source/cocoon-2.0.4-src.tar.gz



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