Dan Price wrote: > On Tue 30 May 2006 at 03:36AM, Roland Mainz wrote: > > Derek Cicero wrote: > > > We need to do little housecleaning on the download server, so going > > > forward our plan is to provide the following archival downloads: > > > > > > + For numbered builds we will keep the last 6 months. > > > > Is it possible to extend that to 12 months, please ? > > Some of the larger projects may have to wait longer for their inclusion > > into OS/Net and IMO it may be bad if the original B[1-9][1-9] build > > tools, sources etc. go away shortly before the putback just because > > they're slightly over the six-month barrier... > > [I agree with Casper: project gates should stay in sync...]
Yes, but see my comment about people with less capable infrastructure. You're basically hurting the weakest members of the community by this approach... > In the interest of historical curiousity, it seems like we might want to > something more phased: > > - All builds for the past 6 months will be preserved > - Every 5th build for the past two years will be preserved. > - The first and last build of any given release will be > preserved in perpetuity. > > Would that work? That would mean that someone would always have the > means to make a meaningful comparison between say, build 1 and build 70. It will not really work because it doesn't take into account whether the selected builds are "useable" or not. For example B37 for the ksh93-integration was a quite good choice but all the following bits until B41 were horrible on some hardware (including VMware). ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
