On 04/19/2012 02:19 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Kay Schenk<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all--
Please see:
http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html
esp the paragraph on "Distribution" sentence...
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Distribution
The Apache infrastructure must be the primary source for all artifacts
officially released by the ASF.
The Apache Infrastructure team maintains the Apache release distribution
infrastructure. This infrastructure has two parts: the mirrored directories
on www.apache.org and the Maven repository on repository.apache.org.
=====================
To me, this means we will use Apache infra and mirrors for the distribution
of release 3.4, when that happens.
But in our case Apache Infra has agreed that we could/should accept
help from SourceForge due to the size and volume involved in this
release.
I think this statement from Joe is the most recent and authoritative
statement from Infra on this specific topic:
http://markmail.org/message/quwkdctro7dpzyly
-Rob
Rob--Thanks for pointing this out and pinning this down. Despite the
fact that I read through this thread, I obviously missed this --and it
was just a few days ago! ack! (I will now file this in a safe place.)
OK, but it is not clear to me at all how to incorporate more than one
mirror system (automatically), and like others I don't think it can be
done really. So Joe's statement--
"Infra's position is currently that, for the upcoming release ONLY,
continuing to use the legacy mirrorbrain system in conjunction with ASF
mirrors and SF downloads is A-OK"
is a big ??? for me. How would "in conjunction" work? Maybe Joe or one
of the other infra staff have some ideas about this.
Change the current DL script to present the user with a choice of
download options? ASF or MirrorBrain/SourceForge? We could do this I think.
Also, it would be difficult to keep actual DL statistics if we split
things up.
Thoughts?
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MzK
"Women and cats will do as they please,
and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert Heinlein
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MzK
"Women and cats will do as they please,
and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert Heinlein
