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/<VERSION>/
(previous: https://www.apache.org/dist/cassandra/<VERSION>/ )
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" <mich...@pbandjelly.org> 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" <mshu...@apache.org> 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
>
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