+1 but we have to provide the source archive for *all* Aries project (main repo and other repos like aries-jaxrs-whiteboard, etc).
Regards JB On 07/10/2018 09:56, Christian Schneider wrote: > The apache release policy requires that we put the sources of all releases > to the apache dist server: > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/aries/ > > We have to make sure to do this but we also should keep the effort as small > as possible as basically none of our users really uses these artifacts. > What our users use are the binaries and they use them as far as I know only > through maven central. We cover this part by putting them on the > repository.apache.org server. > So in my opinion the only (but still important) case for using the dist > server is to cover the legal aspects of a release. Especially to cover the > release manager from legal problems. > > Because of this I propose we only put the source release zip onto the dist > server. > > In addition I also think we could regularly remove the sources again from > the dist server as we do not use it for spreading the release to the apache > mirrors. Every file that is ever put to the dist server is automatically > put to the archive server too. > So removing files from dist only makes them eventually disappear from > mirrors but they always stay in the apache archive. So I think from a legal > pov we do not need to keep them on dist. > > What do you think? > > Christian > -- Jean-Baptiste Onofré [email protected] http://blog.nanthrax.net Talend - http://www.talend.com
