Chris, there is a stable link for exactly this purpose: http://www.apache.org/dist/hadoop/core/stable/ --Matt
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Chris K Wensel <ch...@wensel.net> wrote: > regardless of what was written in a wiki somewhere, it is a bit aggressive > I think. > > there are a fair number of automated things that link to the former stable > releases that are now broken as they weren't given a grace period to cut > over. > > not the end of the world or anything. just a bit of a disconnect to > reference something labeled stable where the reference itself isn't. too > bad there isn't some 'stable' link that itself is updated to the actual > stable release. > > we do this now with all of the cascading artifacts. it prevents automated > things from breaking immediately. > > http://files.cascading.org/sdk/2.1/latest.txt > > ckw > > On Aug 5, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Matt Foley <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > It's still available in archive at > http://archive.apache.org/dist/hadoop/core/. I can put it back on the > main download site if desired, but the model is that the main download site > is for stuff we actively want people to download. Here is the relevant > quote from http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToRelease , under the > "Publishing" section: > > 3. The release directory usually contains just two releases, the most > recent from two branches, with a link named 'stable' to the most recent > recommended version. > > Quite a few more than two versions have accumulated, because more than two > branches are active. But within the Hadoop-1 set I've tried to keep it > minimal. Since 1.2.1 was accepted as a "stable" release, I saw no reason > to keep 1.1.2, since we'd rather people downloaded 1.2.1. When 1.3.0 is > produced, since it will be "beta" quality, 1.2.1 will of course remain as > the "stable" version. > > --Matt > > > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Chris K Wensel <ch...@wensel.net> wrote: > >> any particular reason the 1.1.2 releases were pulled from the mirrors (so >> quickly)? >> >> On Aug 4, 2013, at 2:08 PM, Matt Foley <ma...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> > I'm happy to announce that Hadoop version 1.2.1 has passed its release >> vote >> > and is now available. It has 18 bug fixes and patches over the previous >> > 1.2.0 release; please see Hadoop 1.2.1 Release >> > Notes<http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.2.1/releasenotes.html>for >> > details. This release of Hadoop-1.2 is now considered >> > *stable*. >> > >> > The next set of release work will focus on producing Hadoop-1.3.0, which >> > will include Windows native compatibility. >> > >> > Thank you, >> > --Matt >> > release manager, hadoop-1 >> >> -- >> Chris K Wensel >> ch...@concurrentinc.com >> http://concurrentinc.com >> >> > > -- > Chris K Wensel > ch...@concurrentinc.com > http://concurrentinc.com > >
