The apache release policy requires that we put the sources of all releases to the apache dist server: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/aries/
We have to make sure to do this but we also should keep the effort as small as possible as basically none of our users really uses these artifacts. What our users use are the binaries and they use them as far as I know only through maven central. We cover this part by putting them on the repository.apache.org server. So in my opinion the only (but still important) case for using the dist server is to cover the legal aspects of a release. Especially to cover the release manager from legal problems. Because of this I propose we only put the source release zip onto the dist server. In addition I also think we could regularly remove the sources again from the dist server as we do not use it for spreading the release to the apache mirrors. Every file that is ever put to the dist server is automatically put to the archive server too. So removing files from dist only makes them eventually disappear from mirrors but they always stay in the apache archive. So I think from a legal pov we do not need to keep them on dist. What do you think? Christian -- -- Christian Schneider http://www.liquid-reality.de Computer Scientist http://www.adobe.com
