On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 07:10:46PM -0700, Justin Mason wrote:
> http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html ,

Current public releases: http://www.apache.org/dist/

Releases that are intended for current public download should be placed on
www.apache.org. This is the main public release site and the site that is
mirrored world-wide. [minotaur.apache.org:/www/www.apache.org/dist/]


So if we only want the latest release there, that's fine, but we'll need to
put up a link to the http://archive.apache.org/dist/spamassassin/ site for
older releases.

> However, I think I agree -- leaving the old versions there for
> a short while makes more sense.   Take a read over those and see
> what you think.

I think leaving the most recent 2 stable releases is fine.

> the correct value for us to cut and paste and cut down on faulty
> brain-work. ;)

;)

> There *is* another problem, though -- since the downloads.html/.cgi page
> is on the single un-mirrored site, and the downloads are on the mirrors
> which may be up to 24 hours out of sync, we would still have to use the
> ?update=200409211830 parameter on the downloads.cgi URL to ensure that
> only up-to-date mirrors are used; otherwise the download link will either
>     - (a) if it points to Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.1.tar.gz, return a 404
>     - (b) if it points to Mail-SpamAssassin-current.tar.gz, return the old
>       file which will not match the checksums, and that's not good.

I'd rather use the update parameter then risk people getting really confused
with "-current".  We already need to push out a new download page with the
latest version on it, so it's not a big deal to update the parameter.

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