On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Dave Fisher wrote:
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:10:00 +0000
From: Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net>
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: [DISCUSS] Retirement Policy for Artifacts
In INCUBATOR-198 Infra asked us to clean up Release artifacts from
archive.apache.org <http://archive.apache.org/> for retired podlings.
I created INCUBATOR-233 so that we can make sure we are clear about
the policy before we undertake proper cleanup.
Nothing should be removed from archive.apache.org,
except, parhaps, for legal reasons.
Groeten,
HPP
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When a Podling retires from the Incubator there are two exit states that might
happen:
(1) Development simply stops.
(2) Development moves elsewhere. Either back to the donating entity or simply
elsewhere.
Artifacts that are left that relate to code that may or may not be compliant
with Apache Policy are:
(A) Code Repositories.
(B) Release Archives.
(C) Release Distributions.
(D) Dev Distributions. (These should always be deleted.)
A simple answer would be to keep everything where it is, and that would be easy except
when the code has not been cleared for licensing issues. Fortunately, assuming that the
podling PPMC or its Mentors have maintained the Podling Status Page we do have dates for
licensing clearance that can be used. These are the dates in the “Copyright” and “Verify
Distribution Rights” sections. Are there other dates to check? Are we over to the dates in
content/podlings/<podling>.yml. Once we agree on the correct “date" to use. I
propose that we adopt the following policy for retiring podlings:
(1) If the “date” is empty then we remove every Release and Repository. (We can
allow a delay for people to grab “historical” copies.)
(2) If the "date" is filled in then the Repositories are marked Read Only and all
Releases prior to that “date" are removed.
The effect is that we only preserve artifacts and code that can be considered
to be conforming with Apache Release Policy and Code that is likely to be in
good shape with respect to licensing.
I’d like to go for LAZY CONSENSUS after discussion for the next week or so.
Regards,
Dave
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