Hi, currently we do have almost 6k files directly below https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/sling/ which makes handling with SVN really hard in that directory. As ASF only requires us to upload source releases there (http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#what-must-every-release-contain) I would recommend to just remove everything apart from • *-source-release.zip, • *-source-release.zip.asc, • *-source-release.zip.md5, • *-source-release.zip.sha1
The binaries can stay on Maven Central exclusively. We just need to adjust https://sling.apache.org/downloads.cgi accordingly so that the binary downloads point to Maven Central in the future. Maven is doing it similarly for all their plugins: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/maven/plugins/ For the pom only artifacts (e.g. https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/sling/sling-bundle-parent/40/) we probably need to create source-release.zips as well (similar to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/maven/pom/). Maybe at the same time the dist folder should get subfolders to bring down the amount of files per folder even further. I don't have a very good idea for that though, apart from the obvious - maven-plugins - bundles - others WDYT? Konrad
