Hi All, Having now done a release, I have a couple of suggestions/questions about the release procedure.
=== The dist directories currently have symbolic links named "..current.." that point to the actual files in the binary and source subdirs. Is there actually any justification for keeping these? If someone were to download via these links, then the saved file doesn't have the version# in it, which doesn't seem to something we should encourage. And it is a nuisance to create the symlinks. It seems easier to me to just do away with them. === My understanding of the "archive" procedure is as follows. I would like to add this info into the release procedure documentation so if I have misunderstood anything, please correct me. The contents of people.apache.org:/www/www.apache.org/dist directory gets replicated to all the apache mirrors. Note that if a file is deleted from this directory tree then it will be deleted from the mirrors. The contents is also automatically copied to people.apache.org:/www/archive.apache.org/dist which then gets rsync'd to http://archive.apache.org. Note, however, that if a file is deleted from /www/www.apache.org/dist then it is *not* deleted from /www/archive.apache.org/dist, and therefore remains available at http://archive.apache.org. Having very old files under www.apache.org/dist wastes mirror diskspace, so it is good practice to delete files that are unlikely to be in significant demand. In general, when doing a release, the files associated with a release older than 2 years should be deleted at the same time. These files will still remain available via archive.apache.org. There is no need to manually update anything in /www/archive.apache.org; this automatically updates from the main distribution directory, and files should never be deleted from it. === Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
