I still don't understand why you even *asked* to put these onto
dist.a.o. Didn't you stop and wonder why it was 2G? It took me a quick
minute to "unzip -l" your bits to see how messed up it was. I find
that lack of curiosity the worst part of this episode :-(


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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