Axis2/C does not have parallel development branches. All the releases of
Axis2/C were done in a serial manner. Hence archiving 1.5.0  and the
releases before that should not be an issue.

Regards
Nandika

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Andreas Veithen
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 22:51, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 04/06/2011 21:45, Andreas Veithen wrote:
> >> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 22:07, Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>> On 04/06/2011 21:02, Andreas Veithen wrote:
> >>>> Axis2/C has not yet done any release since the migration to the Axis
> >>>> TLP. 1.5.0 and 1.6.0 are the last two major releases. That should be
> >>>> OK with respect to the archiving policy.
> >>>
> >>> It would if there was some indication that 1.5.x was still being
> >>> developed but since only 1.6.0 is listed on the Axis C download page,
> >>> 1.5.0 looks like an old release that needs to be removed. If 1.5.x  was
> >>> still under active development in parallel with 1.6.x I'd expect to see
> >>> it listed on the download pages.
> >>
> >> It is listed:
> >>
> >> http://axis.apache.org/axis2/c/core/download.cgi
> >>
> >> Probably you are confusing Axis2/C with Axis/C++.
> >
> > Nope, I was just looking here:
> > http://axis.apache.org/axis2/c/core/
> >
> > I still see no good reason for anything other than 1.6.0 to be on the
> > mirrors. There is no evidence of parallel development of branches here,
> > just serial releases.
>
> I can only give authoritative answers to questions about the Java
> projects in Axis. I honestly don't know if there is any chance that
> there will be an Axis2/C 1.5.1 release or if any of the other C
> projects is still based on 1.5.0 and has not yet upgraded to 1.6.0.
>
> I did the requested cleanup for Axis and the WS subprojects I'm
> actively involved in back in March. To me, having a 1.5.0 release and
> a 1.6.0 release seemed to be compatible with the scheme outlined in
> your mail from March 13:
>
> a) latest release of the current branch
> b) latest stable release of the current branch
> c) latest stable release of previous branches
>
> If you need evidence of parallel development for each and every
> project that has more than a single release in the dist area, then
> this goes beyond what you requested initially. In the case of Axis2/C,
> I would first have to find somebody who can answer that question and
> who takes the necessary actions if 1.5.0 should be archived.
>
> I think it's important to reduce the amount of releases in the dist
> areas, but is it reasonable to push it to that level for each border
> case? I just happen to be the poor guy who today did the work that my
> fellow WS devs failed to do over the last couple of months, and now
> I'm dragged into a discussion about whether Axis2/C 1.6.0 is a release
> from a different branch or a serial release. I think we both have more
> important items on our todo lists than doing that kind of
> investigation, don't we?
>
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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