stevedlawrence opened a new pull request, #102: URL: https://github.com/apache/daffodil-site/pull/102
The closer.lua page does not provide any information we don't already provide. The mirrors that it used to list have been replaced by a CDN, and we provide a message and link describing how to verify downloads on our download page. This has also been known to cause issues when users try to wget/curl a download link, since they just download an HTML page instead of the actual intended artifact, causing confusing about failed installations or invalid gpg signatures or checksums. To avoid this issues, for apache release artifcts using closer.lua, this now appends ?action=download to the end of the URL so the download links skip the normal closer.lua page and instead download straight from the CDN. Additionally, closer.lua is aware of archived artifacts, so we can use the same URL for archived and non-archived URLs. The downloads.apache.org URL is aware of archived .sha512 and .asc release artifacts, so these too can use the same URL for all releases. By using these URLs, we no longer need to update previous release pages when they are archived. We just need to delete old releases from dist.apache.org and the links will automatically redirect to the archives, removing one manual step from the release process. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
