This question has come up a couple times on the user@ list and also on irc and I thought it might be good to discuss. What do people think about creating a new git repository for release artifacts for any of our client libraries that use in tree git versioning for their given build systems. This would remove the need to download 30+ mb of data each time someone would like to get a specific version of our Thrift client libraries. The libraries that pop into mind right away are PHP, Go and Node.
They would not contain a master branch and we would not take pull requests for those repos, they would only contain the released branches of the given client libraries along with a README pointing back at our main apache/thrift repository and any necessary build versioning files (like a composer.json file in the php case). Example would be apache/thrift-php branch 0.9.3 would be identical to the contents of apache/thrift 0.9.3 lib/php folder. Thoughts? -Jake
