Re: Old releases in https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/httpcomponents

[sebb <se...@gmail.com>]

On 25 September 2017 at 14:26, Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-09-24 at 22:58 +0100, sebb wrote:
>> Here are the source zips (chosen as a sample of a file that will
>> appear in each release).
>>
>
> I can update release scripts to drop the content of 'source' and
> 'binary' folders prior to a release promotion.

That's a bit too soon.

The new release needs to have a chance to propagate to the mirrors
before the previous release is dropped.

Best to drop the old release(s) just after the new release is
announced - which in turn needs to be done a day or so after the new
release is published.

> Oleg
>
>
>> As can be seen, there are quite a few old releases.
>> (Obviously one needs to remove more than just the src.zip!)
>>
>> $ svn ls -R https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/httpcomponents
>> > grep 'src\.zip$'
>>
>> commons-httpclient/source/commons-httpclient-3.1-src.zip
>> httpasyncclient/source/httpcomponents-asyncclient-4.0.1-src.zip
>> httpasyncclient/source/httpcomponents-asyncclient-4.1-src.zip
>> httpasyncclient/source/httpcomponents-asyncclient-4.1.1-src.zip
>> httpasyncclient/source/httpcomponents-asyncclient-4.1.2-src.zip
>> httpasyncclient/source/httpcomponents-asyncclient-4.1.3-src.zip
>> httpclient/source/httpcomponents-client-4.5-src.zip
>> httpclient/source/httpcomponents-client-4.5.1-src.zip
>> httpclient/source/httpcomponents-client-4.5.2-src.zip
>> httpclient/source/httpcomponents-client-4.5.3-src.zip
>> httpclient/source/httpcomponents-client-5.0-alpha1-src.zip
>> httpclient/source/httpcomponents-client-5.0-alpha2-src.zip
>> httpclient-android/source/httpcomponents-client-android-4.3.5.1-
>> src.zip
>> httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-4.4.5-src.zip
>> httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-4.4.6-src.zip
>> httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-4.4.7-src.zip
>> httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.0-alpha3-src.zip
>> httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.0-alpha4-src.zip
>>
>>
>>
>> On 24 September 2017 at 22:39, Gary Gregory <ga...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I think I will delete some old ones then when I get home. I'd hope
>> > it would
>> > avoid people asking questions based on old code and old examples.
>> >
>> > Gary
>> >
>> > On Sep 24, 2017 15:00, "Oleg Kalnichevski" <ol...@apache.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sun, 2017-09-24 at 09:26 -0600, Gary Gregory wrote:
>> > > Hi All,
>> > >
>> > > We have old releases under
>> > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/httpcomponents
>> > >
>> > > I think these should be pruned to only keep the latest of each
>> > > component.
>> > >
>> > > At least that's what I've seen other projects do.
>> > >
>> > > Check?
>> > >
>> >
>> > I recently deleted a number of older releases. I have no problem
>> > with
>> > keeping just the latest but likewise do not have a problem with
>> > keeping
>> > a few.
>> >
>> > Oleg
>> >
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