On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Henk P. Penning <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:23:54 GMT, Henri Yandell <[email protected]> wrote : > >> Not that I know of. > > >> That would mean updating the websites to point to the archives and not >> the mirrors, and we're not in the business of editing the websites >> without strong cause. > > >> Hen > > > Hi, > > The attic'ed projects can't be on the mirrors forever, imho. > A cleanup after, say, 6 months seems reasonable. > > Cleanup was done for (for instance) 'beehive' like this : > the 'dist/beehive/' directory is stripped, containing only > a .htaccess file with : > > RedirectMatch permanent .* http://attic.apache.org/projects/beehive.html > > The same can be done for other projects. > > At the moment, candidates are : harmony and jakarta, > since the were attic'ed at least half a year ago. > > Of course, these pages: > > http://attic.apache.org/projects/harmony.html > http://attic.apache.org/projects/jakarta.html > > should contain a reference to relevant archive.apache.org page, > as for instance the beehive attic page does. > > Please make it the rule to cleanup attic'ed projects after six months. > I'll be happy to do the cleanup and set the proper .htaccess files.
Sounds good to me. I'm +1. (Though currently unable to change the website content as SVN and I disagree on my password. Oddly people.apache.org has taken my side in the argument). Hen
