No need to wait a week, if you have time to clear it out. Thanks for taking care of this, Ian. -C
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:19 AM, Ian Holsman <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had a look at hadoop's dist area (http://www.apache.org/dist/hadoop/ ) > and was wondering which of these people think we should do here. > > If no one objects within a week, I will remove everything except the > hadoop-0.20.2, > hadoop-21.0, and stable directories there. > > Thanks > Ian > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Mark Thomas <m> >> Date: April 27, 2011 8:07:53 AM EDT >> Subject: Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] www.apache.org/dist/<tlp> housekeeping >> > >> PMC members, >> >> Six weeks ago, the infrastructure team sent you the e-mail below. To the >> projects that were already following the release guidelines and to those >> projects that have since cleaned up their /dist area - thank you. The >> infrastructure team really does appreciate you doing this. >> >> Regrettably, a large number of PMCs have chosen to ignore the message >> below. To those PMCs, you have one month (until 31 May 2011) to clean up >> your dist area or the infrastructure team will simply remove all files >> that are more than twelve months old. >> >> Mark >> on behalf of the ASF Infrastructure Team >> >> On 10/03/2011 08:16, Mark Thomas wrote: >>> PMC members, >>> >>> As the ASF grows in size, so does the total size of the distribution >>> artefacts we ask our mirror community to support for us. The larger this >>> total size, the greater the strain on both ASF infrastructure and on the >>> mirroring system. >>> >>> As per the release guidelines [1], only current releases should be >>> available at http://www.apache.org/dist/. Monitoring of >>> http://www.apache.org/dist/ [2] shows that some projects are not >>> removing old releases. This is placing an unnecessary strain on both ASF >>> infrastructure and on our mirror volunteers. >>> >>> Thanks to those PMCs that have been removing old releases from their >>> distribution directory. The infrastructure appreciates you keeping on >>> top of this. >>> >>> PMCs that have not been removing old releases are required to review >>> their current distribution directory and remove any old releases. >>> - PMCs using svnpubsub should remove old releases via svn. >>> - PMCs not using svnpubsub should remove old releases directly from >>> /www/www.apache.org/dist/<tlp> on people.apache.org at. Note that any >>> deletions may take up to 24 hours to replicate to http://www.apache.org/dist >>> In both cases it may take longer for changes to replicate to mirrors. >>> >>> Old releases removed from http://www.apache.org/dist/ are not lost. >>> Release are automatically copied to http://archive.apache.org/dist/ and >>> are never deleted. >>> >>> This inevitably raises the question what is a current release and what >>> is an old release. To some extent, this varies from project to project >>> but typically it amounts to the following: >>> a) latest release of the current branch >>> b) latest stable release of the current branch >>> c) latest stable release of previous branches >>> >>> It is hard to give concrete examples that apply to all projects since >>> each project is free to use its own release numbering scheme. However, a >>> project that includes versions 2.1.0, 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 in its release >>> directory almost certainly has some cleaning up to do. A project that >>> includes 1.0.6, 1.1.5 and 2.0.7 probably doesn't. >>> >>> If you have any questions about how to manage your distribution >>> directory please contact the infrastructure team. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> Mark >>> on behalf of the ASF Infrastructure Team >>> >>> >>> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html >>> [2] http://people.apache.org/~henkp/tlps/ >> >> >> > > -- > Ian Holsman > [email protected] > PH: +1-703 879-3128 AOLIM: ianholsman Skype:iholsman > > Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe > you anyway. Elbert Hubbard > > > > >
