Ok, so I will have to promote to the update site but leave the old 
artifacts.jar and contents.jar there until the final release date (so the new 
release artifacts remain invisible until then but the mirrors can do their 
job), right? Well, this means that in order to assure correct handling of the 
p2.mirrorsURL property in my publish script I will have to tweak the existing 
artifacts.jar of our current releases update-site manually (as no other repo is 
mirrored) and perform the tests with it (i.e. using the 3.7.2 release 
artifacts). And then let's hope that my publish script (which uses the WTP 
addRepoProperties application) behaves the same....

Cheers
Alexander

Am 19.06.2012 um 15:53 schrieb Denis Roy:

> On 06/19/2012 08:18 AM, Alexander Nyßen wrote:
>> 
>> Will it do any harm if I publish the release (which is anyhow promoted as 
>> RC4 on the milestones update-site) to the releases update-site in advance?
> 
> I can only speak from the infrastructure perspective.
> 
> As I type this, 18 mirrors (our configured limit) are connected and pulling 
> in the final bits for some projects.  As you can suspect, these mirrors draw 
> a noticeable amount of bandwidth.  As more projects move their files in their 
> final locations, our 50-or-so mirrors will be picking up the changes, and 
> we'll be under some strain for the rest of the week.  That's why we call this 
> "quiet week".
> 
> If some projects start publishing actual release bits, then we must also deal 
> with the added pain of supporting these user downloads.  Since the mirrors 
> are not fully caught up, download.eclipse.org will be the only server 
> available.  This will lead to congestion and grumpy users.
> 
> Don't underestimate the amount of users who "Check for updates" just out of 
> curiosity.  It's also no secret that Eclipse has a big release "sometime 
> towards the end of June" so as the days go by, anxious users get increasingly 
> click-happy.
> 
> Back in the old days we didn't have a sync period, and releases where quite 
> chaotic.
> 
> Denis
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Alexander
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