On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote:
> How about we keep 1.1.0, 1.0.2 and 0.11.2 then?
>
> When 1.0.3 is released, we'll archive 1.0.2 at least. I don't think we
> should be encouraging downloads of 0.11.2, so I'd like to archive it
> soon.
>
> B.
>

Yes, this is exactly what I was proposing.

> On 6 June 2011 16:58, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 6 Jun 2011, at 16:32, Paul Davis wrote:
>>
>>> To reiterate some points. Tony Stevenson tells me the infrastructure
>>> policy is, "We expect PMcs to only keep 1 copy of each branch/major
>>> version, anything else should be archived."
>>
>> Where did he tell you this? Is it on a mailing list somewhere? My concern 
>> here is that the official Apache policy is actually decidedly vague on the 
>> matter. Which I have always interpreted as being quite intentional, so that 
>> projects can decide for themselves what the policy should be.
>>
>>> I have been instructed to
>>> specifically remove 0.11.0, 0.11.1, and 1.0.1 from the dist directory
>>> under threat of cattle prod and apparently cuddle kitties.
>>
>> Again, where?
>>
>> This stuff should be happening on the mailing lists.
>>
>> I agree that this makes sense, but I have been concerned for a while that in 
>> doing so, there maybe be certain circumstances where some technical detail 
>> means that not providing a smooth bugfix upgrade path may cause problems. 
>> That was one of the primary things I was hoping to clarify by starting this 
>> discussion.
>>
>> Anyone see a problem with this?
>>
>>> As to what's listed in downloads.html I'll leave that to the bike
>>> shedding except to point out there's no policy I know of that prevents
>>> us from linking to the archived versions.
>>
>> These two things are the same. The policy is that the downloads.html page 
>> must link through to the mirrors, to reduce the load on the Apache servers. 
>> So whatever we remove from the dist directory needs to be removed from this 
>> page.
>

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