Jeff Turner wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 06:33:23PM +0100, Carsten Ziegeler wrote: > > Hi Team, > > > > I think we should either delete or move the old distributions (b1, rc1, rc2 > > etc). > > We really don't want someone to download them. So I'm +1 on deleting or does > > this produce any problem? > > How about moving them to an old/ directory instead?
+1 > I don't think old distributions should *ever* be deleted, unless space > limitations force the issue. Ever. +1000 > Who knows why users may want to > download old code? For example, *many* people have live sites based on > RC2, and when Cocoon dies with a stacktrace, those people want to have > RC2 source code to help debug the problem. Absolutely agreed. > Likewise with Cocoon 1. Some people have an *investment* in it. They > don't want Cocoon 2, no matter how much better it is. > > A related issue: yesterday, http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/ became > http://xml.apache.org/cocoon1/, breaking thousands of links. Yes, we are aware of this but it's a price to pay for now (see below). > I > understand the reason for this; the only problem is that when Cocoon 3 > arrives, everyone's URLs will break again. A nicer solution would be to > have: > > http://xml.apache.org/cocoon1 > http://xml.apache.org/cocoon2 > http://xml.apache.org/cocoon3 > > and then use mod_rewrite to make http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/ reflect > whatever is the current version. Forget it! The Cocoon homepage *is* http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/. Period. We will never have other URIs, we'll keep all the documentation inside and work more evolutionarely from now on (no big transitions). > That way, people who really believe > "Cool URIs don't change"[1] can point to a specific version of Cocoon, > but casual users will see the latest version. I'm the biggest evangelist of that paper. The mistake of creating /cocoon2 was made when I wasn't around and big mistakes require big changes. Believe me, this won't happen again, but we needed to do it. -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
