Fwd: Re: [PROPOSAL] archive old unmirrored tomcat releases

2003-09-08 Thread robert burrell donkin
PROTECTED] Date: Fri Sep 05, 2003 08:45:11 PM Europe/London To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:[PROPOSAL] archive old unmirrored tomcat releases Hi Robert, I'm not a tomcat developer, but I saw your message on the tomcat-dev archive page. I know of another reason why so many people are downloading

Re: [PROPOSAL] archive old unmirrored tomcat releases

2003-09-06 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 07:34 AM, Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 1. all available distributables for the latest tomcat 3, tomcat 4 and tomcat 5 releases be added to the appropriate mirrored directories and linked to

Re: [PROPOSAL] archive old unmirrored tomcat releases

2003-09-04 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the download statistics (supply by infrastructure) [1] show that unmirrored tomcat downloads from these directories are still proving far too popular. In particular it seems that people are downloading 4.1.24 instead of the

Re: [PROPOSAL] archive old unmirrored tomcat releases

2003-09-04 Thread Remy Maucherat
Stefan Bodewig wrote: On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, robert burrell donkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In particular it seems that people are downloading 4.1.24 instead of the latest release. After looking around a bit, I think they are getting there via freshmeat.net. Remy, could you please announce the

Re: [PROPOSAL] archive old unmirrored tomcat releases

2003-09-04 Thread Stefan Bodewig
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003, Remy Maucherat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used Freshmeat for some time, and concluded it is useless Sure, but users go there and follow the links. (not user friendly, their admins are not very nice and few people in the Java community use it). Take a look at

[PROPOSAL] archive old unmirrored tomcat releases

2003-09-03 Thread robert burrell donkin
(as many you will know) the apache software foundation policy concerning releases is now that all releases should be available only through: 1. the main mirrored ASF distribution directories 2. the main ASF archives tomcat releases are still available through the older unmirrored directories.