Any volunteers here who are familiar with our dist/ directory? If not I can take care of this.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> Date: Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:51 PM Subject: [DRAFT FOR REVIEW] [ACTION REQUIRED] www.apache.org/dist/<tlp> housekeeping To: infrastructure-priv...@apache.org, p...@apache.org Cc: bo...@apache.org PMC Members, If your PMC/Incubator podling does not appear in the lists below please feel free to ignore this message and apologies for the noise. TLPs that need to clean up /dist: abdera, buildr, cassandra, click, cocoon, couchdb, hbase, hive, jackrabbit, logging, nutch, openwebbeans, perl, portals, qpid, roller, santuario, shiro, spamassassin, synapse, tcl, thrift, tiles, ws, xmlbeans, xmlgraphics TLPs that need to clean up their incubator /dist area: abdera, buildr, chemistry, esme, libcloud, oodt, river, thrift, uima Incubator podlings that need to clean up their incubator /dist area: bval, deltaclound, empire-db, manifoldcf, olio, vcl, whirr, wink The deadline set below has now passed. You need to clean up your /dist area(s) asap. If you have any queries, please contact the infrastructure team. Mark on behalf of the ASF Infrastructure Team On 27/04/2011 13:07, Mark Thomas wrote: > PMC members, > > Six weeks ago, the infrastructure team sent you the e-mail below. To the > projects that were already following the release guidelines and to those > projects that have since cleaned up their /dist area - thank you. The > infrastructure team really does appreciate you doing this. > > Regrettably, a large number of PMCs have chosen to ignore the message > below. To those PMCs, you have one month (until 31 May 2011) to clean up > your dist area or the infrastructure team will simply remove all files > that are more than twelve months old. > > Mark > on behalf of the ASF Infrastructure Team > > On 10/03/2011 08:16, Mark Thomas wrote: >> PMC members, >> >> As the ASF grows in size, so does the total size of the distribution >> artefacts we ask our mirror community to support for us. The larger this >> total size, the greater the strain on both ASF infrastructure and on the >> mirroring system. >> >> As per the release guidelines [1], only current releases should be >> available at http://www.apache.org/dist/. Monitoring of >> http://www.apache.org/dist/ [2] shows that some projects are not >> removing old releases. This is placing an unnecessary strain on both ASF >> infrastructure and on our mirror volunteers. >> >> Thanks to those PMCs that have been removing old releases from their >> distribution directory. The infrastructure appreciates you keeping on >> top of this. >> >> PMCs that have not been removing old releases are required to review >> their current distribution directory and remove any old releases. >> - PMCs using svnpubsub should remove old releases via svn. >> - PMCs not using svnpubsub should remove old releases directly from >> /www/www.apache.org/dist/<tlp> on people.apache.org at. Note that any >> deletions may take up to 24 hours to replicate to http://www.apache.org/dist >> In both cases it may take longer for changes to replicate to mirrors. >> >> Old releases removed from http://www.apache.org/dist/ are not lost. >> Release are automatically copied to http://archive.apache.org/dist/ and >> are never deleted. >> >> This inevitably raises the question what is a current release and what >> is an old release. To some extent, this varies from project to project >> but typically it amounts to the following: >> a) latest release of the current branch >> b) latest stable release of the current branch >> c) latest stable release of previous branches >> >> It is hard to give concrete examples that apply to all projects since >> each project is free to use its own release numbering scheme. However, a >> project that includes versions 2.1.0, 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 in its release >> directory almost certainly has some cleaning up to do. A project that >> includes 1.0.6, 1.1.5 and 2.0.7 probably doesn't. >> >> If you have any questions about how to manage your distribution >> directory please contact the infrastructure team. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Mark >> on behalf of the ASF Infrastructure Team >> >> >> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html >> [2] http://people.apache.org/~henkp/tlps/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: private-unsubscr...@perl.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: private-h...@perl.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@perl.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@perl.apache.org
