Fw: [ACTION REQUIRED] www.apache.org/dist/ housekeeping

[Jacques Le Roux <jl...@les7arts.com>]

Hi,

FYI: I noticed this message, but from http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#how-to-archive I think we don't have to worry since we 
have only 2 stable releases

Jacques

Mark Thomas wrote:
> PMC members,
>
> As the ASF grows in size, so does the total size of the distribution
> artefacts we ask our mirror community to support for us. The larger this
> total size, the greater the strain on both ASF infrastructure and on the
> mirroring system.
>
> As per the release guidelines [1], only current releases should be
> available at http://www.apache.org/dist/. Monitoring of
> http://www.apache.org/dist/ [2] shows that some projects are not
> removing old releases. This is placing an unnecessary strain on both ASF
> infrastructure and on our mirror volunteers.
>
> Thanks to those PMCs that have been removing old releases from their
> distribution directory. The infrastructure appreciates you keeping on
> top of this.
>
> PMCs that have not been removing old releases are required to review
> their current distribution directory and remove any old releases.
> - PMCs using svnpubsub should remove old releases via svn.
> - PMCs not using svnpubsub should remove old releases directly from
> /www/www.apache.org/dist/<tlp> on people.apache.org at. Note that any
> deletions may take up to 24 hours to replicate to http://www.apache.org/dist
> In both cases it may take longer for changes to replicate to mirrors.
>
> Old releases removed from http://www.apache.org/dist/ are not lost.
> Release are automatically copied to http://archive.apache.org/dist/ and
> are never deleted.
>
> This inevitably raises the question what is a current release and what
> is an old release. To some extent, this varies from project to project
> but typically it amounts to the following:
> a) latest release of the current branch
> b) latest stable release of the current branch
> c) latest stable release of previous branches
>
> It is hard to give concrete examples that apply to all projects since
> each project is free to use its own release numbering scheme. However, a
> project that includes versions 2.1.0, 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 in its release
> directory almost certainly has some cleaning up to do. A project that
> includes 1.0.6, 1.1.5 and 2.0.7 probably doesn't.
>
> If you have any questions about how to manage your distribution
> directory please contact the infrastructure team.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mark
> on behalf of the ASF Infrastructure Team
>
>
> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
> [2] http://people.apache.org/~henkp/tlps/ 

Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] www.apache.org/dist/ housekeeping

[Jacopo Cappellato <ja...@hotwaxmedia.com>]

I have already replied to the private list: no action is required from us because I am already taking care of this when we issue new releases.

Jacopo

On Mar 10, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> FYI: I noticed this message, but from http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#how-to-archive I think we don't have to worry since we have only 2 stable releases
> 
> Jacques
> 
> Mark Thomas wrote:
>> PMC members,
>> 
>> As the ASF grows in size, so does the total size of the distribution
>> artefacts we ask our mirror community to support for us. The larger this
>> total size, the greater the strain on both ASF infrastructure and on the
>> mirroring system.
>> 
>> As per the release guidelines [1], only current releases should be
>> available at http://www.apache.org/dist/. Monitoring of
>> http://www.apache.org/dist/ [2] shows that some projects are not
>> removing old releases. This is placing an unnecessary strain on both ASF
>> infrastructure and on our mirror volunteers.
>> 
>> Thanks to those PMCs that have been removing old releases from their
>> distribution directory. The infrastructure appreciates you keeping on
>> top of this.
>> 
>> PMCs that have not been removing old releases are required to review
>> their current distribution directory and remove any old releases.
>> - PMCs using svnpubsub should remove old releases via svn.
>> - PMCs not using svnpubsub should remove old releases directly from
>> /www/www.apache.org/dist/<tlp> on people.apache.org at. Note that any
>> deletions may take up to 24 hours to replicate to http://www.apache.org/dist
>> In both cases it may take longer for changes to replicate to mirrors.
>> 
>> Old releases removed from http://www.apache.org/dist/ are not lost.
>> Release are automatically copied to http://archive.apache.org/dist/ and
>> are never deleted.
>> 
>> This inevitably raises the question what is a current release and what
>> is an old release. To some extent, this varies from project to project
>> but typically it amounts to the following:
>> a) latest release of the current branch
>> b) latest stable release of the current branch
>> c) latest stable release of previous branches
>> 
>> It is hard to give concrete examples that apply to all projects since
>> each project is free to use its own release numbering scheme. However, a
>> project that includes versions 2.1.0, 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 in its release
>> directory almost certainly has some cleaning up to do. A project that
>> includes 1.0.6, 1.1.5 and 2.0.7 probably doesn't.
>> 
>> If you have any questions about how to manage your distribution
>> directory please contact the infrastructure team.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Mark
>> on behalf of the ASF Infrastructure Team
>> 
>> 
>> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
>> [2] http://people.apache.org/~henkp/tlps/ 
> 
>