On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 3:41 AM, Mike Jumper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Before the Incubator, Guacamole was originally hosted on SourceForge. The > old SourceForge project has long since been closed down, but I've been > continuing to copy release artifacts to the old SourceForge download > locations to give users a grace period to migrate to the new location. > > My expectation was (and possibly still is) that these downloads will > gradually dwindle. In reality, it seems like they've leveled off at around > ~2k downloads / week, and the point was raised on JIRA that maintaining > such compatibility may actually be doing more harm than good: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-397? > focusedCommentId=16181253&page=com.atlassian.jira. > plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-16181253 > > Thoughts? > > - Mike > Hmmm...2K downloads per week is not an insignificant number. So, on the one hand, I hate to just cut off that many people from grabbing the code. That said, I do see the point - it would be nice to have one central location, and not have to maintain it, plus the added confusion for people like Brian (or his acquaintances) who just have a script that grabs it. Maybe for the next release you could just drop a text file for that release in the downloads pointing people over to the Apache Incubator page, and then slowly start phasing out the legacy releases that are hosted there? It's not a great solution, but I'm not sure there is a great solution to this one.... -Nick
