Noah, any objections?
On 6 June 2011 17:20, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >
