Re: [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 3.11.6 released
On 2/21/20 10:28 AM, Michael Shuler wrote: So a little extra background: The ASF INFRA team made a change last week to the required release location and redirected all requests for the previous required release URL to: https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra// (previous: https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra// ) This is where projects are required to release artifacts for it to be called a release. The Cassandra project was duplicating the upload of the same tar.gz release artifacts to 2 locations - the above location and buried down in a maven repository. I understand from Mick, who is beginning to help with release management, that the maven upload is undesired. The maven tar.gz upload was to facilitate having a place to download the hashed/signed artifacts after a release vote (so we don't rely on some other non-proper location like someone's laptop or on people.a.o) and upload it to the proper release URL above. I don't think it was ever intended to be a public user's download location. We have never written release email announcements or put this location on the project download page. The 4.0-alpha3 release, as well as the latest round of stable branch releases did not upload the tar.gz artifacts to maven. That tar shuffling was done in a dist/dev svn repository with some release build script changes to better fit policy, and we dropped the maven tarball upload, since it is redundant and not a proper release location, per ASF release policy. The release publishing doc from the ASF is the main thing we've been working from: https://apache.org/dev/release-publishing Last week the Cassandra project updated the main URLs that we put on our website from https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/ to https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/ per the recommendation of ASF INFRA. (It was being redirected anyway.) For the foreseeable future, the publicly announced location to download the latest releases will be: https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/ dammit.. scratch that.. this should say: For the foreseeable future, the publicly announced location to download the latest releases will be: https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/ Michael As always, if you ever need old releases (only the latest are on the main release URL, per policy), the archive URL would be where to find those: https://archive.apache.org/dist/cassandra/ I hope that helps! If there is something I got wrong, please let me/us know. There are a boatload of ASF rules and documents, and every time I go looking for specific info, there are a multitude of doc locations that reference specific things, like releases in this case. There are links to other docs in the above, such as a maven-specific publish doc. Man, I'm sorry we pulled the rug out on these - they weren't intended for public consumption, as far as I know. I could be completely wrong on that, but I believe we were "doing it wrong" as a project, once Mick started digging in and helping out. My best advice is follow what is on the project download page and in the release announcement emails. These may change things from time to time. Kind regards, Michael On 2/21/20 9:10 AM, Chad Helms wrote: Well, that's where they've all been before. All our automation is pulling them from there. Can you point me to the details of this change you mentioned, so we can look at what changes we'll need to make and additional thing's we'll have to proxy behind our firewall. All the 4.0-alpha releases (1 & 2) are also there, btw. On 2/21/20, 9:02 AM, "Michael Shuler" wrote: Why? This release adjusted the location of the tar artifacts, so they were published to the normal recommended dist/release location and not included in maven, where I understand they are not desired to be there. Kind regards, Michael On 2/21/20 8:18 AM, Chad Helms wrote: > Can we get "apache-cassandra:3.11.6:bin.tar.gz" artifact published to maven central too, please? > > On 2/14/20, 5:28 PM, "Michael Shuler" wrote: > > The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache > Cassandra version 3.11.6. > > Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice > when you need scalability and high availability without compromising > performance. > > http://cassandra.apache.org/ > > Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download > section: > > http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ > > This version is a bug fix release[1] on the 3.11 series. As always, > please pay attention to the release notes[2] and Let us know[3] if you > were to encounter any problem. > > Enjoy! > > [1]: CHANGES.txt >
Re: [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 3.11.6 released
So a little extra background: The ASF INFRA team made a change last week to the required release location and redirected all requests for the previous required release URL to: https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra// (previous: https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra// ) This is where projects are required to release artifacts for it to be called a release. The Cassandra project was duplicating the upload of the same tar.gz release artifacts to 2 locations - the above location and buried down in a maven repository. I understand from Mick, who is beginning to help with release management, that the maven upload is undesired. The maven tar.gz upload was to facilitate having a place to download the hashed/signed artifacts after a release vote (so we don't rely on some other non-proper location like someone's laptop or on people.a.o) and upload it to the proper release URL above. I don't think it was ever intended to be a public user's download location. We have never written release email announcements or put this location on the project download page. The 4.0-alpha3 release, as well as the latest round of stable branch releases did not upload the tar.gz artifacts to maven. That tar shuffling was done in a dist/dev svn repository with some release build script changes to better fit policy, and we dropped the maven tarball upload, since it is redundant and not a proper release location, per ASF release policy. The release publishing doc from the ASF is the main thing we've been working from: https://apache.org/dev/release-publishing Last week the Cassandra project updated the main URLs that we put on our website from https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/ to https://downloads.apache.org/cassandra/ per the recommendation of ASF INFRA. (It was being redirected anyway.) For the foreseeable future, the publicly announced location to download the latest releases will be: https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/ As always, if you ever need old releases (only the latest are on the main release URL, per policy), the archive URL would be where to find those: https://archive.apache.org/dist/cassandra/ I hope that helps! If there is something I got wrong, please let me/us know. There are a boatload of ASF rules and documents, and every time I go looking for specific info, there are a multitude of doc locations that reference specific things, like releases in this case. There are links to other docs in the above, such as a maven-specific publish doc. Man, I'm sorry we pulled the rug out on these - they weren't intended for public consumption, as far as I know. I could be completely wrong on that, but I believe we were "doing it wrong" as a project, once Mick started digging in and helping out. My best advice is follow what is on the project download page and in the release announcement emails. These may change things from time to time. Kind regards, Michael On 2/21/20 9:10 AM, Chad Helms wrote: Well, that's where they've all been before. All our automation is pulling them from there. Can you point me to the details of this change you mentioned, so we can look at what changes we'll need to make and additional thing's we'll have to proxy behind our firewall. All the 4.0-alpha releases (1 & 2) are also there, btw. On 2/21/20, 9:02 AM, "Michael Shuler" wrote: Why? This release adjusted the location of the tar artifacts, so they were published to the normal recommended dist/release location and not included in maven, where I understand they are not desired to be there. Kind regards, Michael On 2/21/20 8:18 AM, Chad Helms wrote: > Can we get "apache-cassandra:3.11.6:bin.tar.gz" artifact published to maven central too, please? > > On 2/14/20, 5:28 PM, "Michael Shuler" wrote: > > The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache > Cassandra version 3.11.6. > > Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice > when you need scalability and high availability without compromising > performance. > >http://cassandra.apache.org/ > > Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download > section: > >http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ > > This version is a bug fix release[1] on the 3.11 series. As always, > please pay attention to the release notes[2] and Let us know[3] if you > were to encounter any problem. > > Enjoy! > > [1]: CHANGES.txt > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=CHANGES.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-3.11.6 > [2]: NEWS.txt > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-3.11.6 > [3]:
Re: [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 3.11.6 released
Well, that's where they've all been before. All our automation is pulling them from there. Can you point me to the details of this change you mentioned, so we can look at what changes we'll need to make and additional thing's we'll have to proxy behind our firewall. All the 4.0-alpha releases (1 & 2) are also there, btw. On 2/21/20, 9:02 AM, "Michael Shuler" wrote: Why? This release adjusted the location of the tar artifacts, so they were published to the normal recommended dist/release location and not included in maven, where I understand they are not desired to be there. Kind regards, Michael On 2/21/20 8:18 AM, Chad Helms wrote: > Can we get "apache-cassandra:3.11.6:bin.tar.gz" artifact published to maven central too, please? > > On 2/14/20, 5:28 PM, "Michael Shuler" wrote: > > The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache > Cassandra version 3.11.6. > > Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice > when you need scalability and high availability without compromising > performance. > >http://cassandra.apache.org/ > > Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download > section: > >http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ > > This version is a bug fix release[1] on the 3.11 series. As always, > please pay attention to the release notes[2] and Let us know[3] if you > were to encounter any problem. > > Enjoy! > > [1]: CHANGES.txt > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=CHANGES.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-3.11.6 > [2]: NEWS.txt > https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-3.11.6 > [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org > > > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@cassandra.apache.org > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@cassandra.apache.org
Re: [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 3.11.6 released
Why? This release adjusted the location of the tar artifacts, so they were published to the normal recommended dist/release location and not included in maven, where I understand they are not desired to be there. Kind regards, Michael On 2/21/20 8:18 AM, Chad Helms wrote: Can we get "apache-cassandra:3.11.6:bin.tar.gz" artifact published to maven central too, please? On 2/14/20, 5:28 PM, "Michael Shuler" wrote: The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 3.11.6. Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. http://cassandra.apache.org/ Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download section: http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ This version is a bug fix release[1] on the 3.11 series. As always, please pay attention to the release notes[2] and Let us know[3] if you were to encounter any problem. Enjoy! [1]: CHANGES.txt https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=CHANGES.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-3.11.6 [2]: NEWS.txt https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-3.11.6 [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@cassandra.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@cassandra.apache.org
Re: [RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 3.11.6 released
Can we get "apache-cassandra:3.11.6:bin.tar.gz" artifact published to maven central too, please? On 2/14/20, 5:28 PM, "Michael Shuler" wrote: The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 3.11.6. Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. http://cassandra.apache.org/ Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download section: http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ This version is a bug fix release[1] on the 3.11 series. As always, please pay attention to the release notes[2] and Let us know[3] if you were to encounter any problem. Enjoy! [1]: CHANGES.txt https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=CHANGES.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-3.11.6 [2]: NEWS.txt https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-3.11.6 [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
[RELEASE] Apache Cassandra 3.11.6 released
The Cassandra team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Cassandra version 3.11.6. Apache Cassandra is a fully distributed database. It is the right choice when you need scalability and high availability without compromising performance. http://cassandra.apache.org/ Downloads of source and binary distributions are listed in our download section: http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ This version is a bug fix release[1] on the 3.11 series. As always, please pay attention to the release notes[2] and Let us know[3] if you were to encounter any problem. Enjoy! [1]: CHANGES.txt https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=CHANGES.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-3.11.6 [2]: NEWS.txt https://gitbox.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS.txt;hb=refs/tags/cassandra-3.11.6 [3]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA - To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@cassandra.apache.org
