IMO we're in fairly good shape. But I don't have great insight into how many people are using which release branches.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Gagandeep singh <[email protected]>wrote: > Please correct me if im wrong. > Shindig seems to have 1.0.1 and 2.0.0 releases, so i guess we are ok. > Or should we be removing 1.0.1 as 2.0.0 is quite stable ? > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Mark Thomas <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:46 PM > Subject: [ACTION REQUIRED] www.apache.org/dist/<tlp> housekeeping > To: [email protected] > > > 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/ >
