I forget to mention in status meeting today, but, I would like to remove 
the milestone and release candidate builds "early", like about 5 PM 
Thursday 6/21. (Sorry for short notice, see bug 383129 [1]). 

I know our retention policy says "we keep them until the release is 
available" but I don't think the intent was literally to-the-day and 
removing them now will free up a LOT of space on eclipse.org and the 
hundreds of servers that mirror the eclipse project. (In fact, we are so 
large, it could be argued we should only keep "last three milestones", 
IMHO .... but, we'll save that for future discussion :) 

This removal will include 3.8 and 4.2, both the "drop sites" (where zips 
and archives are) and the "milestone repo sites". 

If anyone wants to "snag a copy", please do. If anyone has any objections 
about exact timing, please document/discuss in bug 383044. (For example, 
if you do want to "get a copy" and can not do it until Friday at 5 PM, or 
similar). 

Bug 383044 - Final logistics of Juno Release 

I will leave RC4 "in place" until release day (both drop site, and repo) 
since some users/adopters may still be wanting to get that, or ... very 
very unlikely ... a "respin" of common repo might be needed. 

Also, I will do this for "Eclipse" ... I'm assuming John or other Equinox 
committer will do for their drop sites (but ... they are tiny compared to 
Eclipse Project's drop sites ... so ... timing is not so critical ... but, 
would be good citizen thing to do). 

Note, I'd like to make this type of "early removal" a normal, documented 
part of retention policy, so have opened bug 383129 [1] before changing 
the semi-official "retention policy page". 

Let me know if any concerns or objections, but if I do not hear otherwise, 
will remove the "old" milestones Thursday EOD. 

[1] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=383129

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