Hi All,
This is nothing short of a total c*ck up on my behalf as release manager
for the artifacts in question.
We discovered a bug which leads to them being ridiculous size.
I apologise for that.
The 'proper' artifacts are tiny in comparison.
Lewis

On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26/06/2013 16:13, Greg Stein wrote:
>> Hmm? Is it normal to put compiled outputs onto dist.apache.org
>> <http://dist.apache.org>? That .war file has a hojillion .jar files in
>> it. My understanding was that dist.a.o is for *source* distributions.
>
> There are convenience binaries on dist.a.o but they are typically in the
> 10s of MB range. 2G appears to be completely OTT.
>
>> Further, it includes a bunch of SNAPSHOT artifacts in the multi-hundred
>> MB range. That seems like a total mistake.
>>
>> In addition, it contains TEN copies of poi-ooxml-schemas-3.8.jar (at 4M
>> each!). That is ludicrous. And TEN copies of netcdf, and TEN copies of
>> pdfbox. etc. You're just blowing away space with those multiple copies.
>> (I only looked at the three largest .jar files piled in there; I'm sure
>> you have ten copies of N other jars!)
>>
>> Why would you even WANT to put this onto our distribution system. Who
>> believes that a 2G distribution is remotely useful, natural, or proper?
>> The .war file seems full of improper bits, and then it gets hauled into
>> your other stuff, polluting them up to 2G.
>
> +1
>
>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi INFRA,
>>     I did not realize that some of the Any23 release artifacts were in
>>     the GB.
>>     The following artifacts (around 7 of them) from the staging URL [0]
>>     are in the GB range and I cannot commit them to SVN [1]. I also
>>     remember seeing some traffic (a while back) regarding notice which
>>     we were supposed to give you if we wished to publish artifacts of
>>     this size... I therefore apologize for not getting this through to
>>     you earlier.
>>     Can you please suggest how we can release these artifacts?
>
> Right now, you can't.
>
> You have two options:
>
> 1. Justify why you need to have so many extremely large artifacts. If
> there is a valid justification, infra will figure out how to get them
> published.
>
> 2. Significantly (by at least one order of magnitude and preferably two)
> reduce the size of your release artifacts and roll a new release.
>
> Mark
>
>

-- 
*Lewis*

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