Agree. As long as there is a pre-release 0.4.0-incubating, I think it is fine to remove the earlier ones.
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 12:51 AM Aleksandar Vidakovic < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > ... I'm currently doing some cleanups in our SVN repositories. For those > who don't know: when we do releases then one part of it is handling all > necessary tasks in Git (like creating release branches, tagging etc.), but > we also upload the release artificats (compiled binaries and sources) as > tar.gz files to Apache's Subversion servers (actually twice, there's a > staging area for review and a release area for final release). Within 24h > (more or less) a release gets automatically archived and is available at > https://downloads.apache.org. The versions we have backed up there go > back to version 0.4.0-incubating. On every new release we have to checkout > these two SVN repositories (staging, release) which can be a bit annoying, > because the artifacts stored there are quite big (several hundred MBs). > According to the official rules ( > https://infra.apache.org/release-distribution.html#archival) we > can/should only keep the releases that we currently support (which would be > 1.8.4 and 1.7.3... note: to be released within 24h). I've started to remove > the deprecated release artifacts to make the release process faster. So > far, so good. > > In SVN we have a couple more release artificats that date back to our > transition from Mifos to Apache, but were not yet archived (either, because > the mechanics were not yet in place at Apache or because of the incubating > status of Fineract, doesn't really matter). My question now is if we > should/have to keep those very early release artifacts for any (nostalgic?) > reason? Again, the archived versions go back to 0.4.0-incubating and our > Git repository has release tags going back to version 1.0.0 (which was the > release that made Fineract a top level project). > > The versions affected would be: > > - 0.1.0-incubating > > - 0.1.1-incubating > > - 0.1.2-incubating > > - 0.3.1-incubating > > - 0.3.2-incubating > > > What do you think? Keep them or drop them? My take would be to ditch > them... > > > Please let me know what you think. > > > Cheers, > > > Aleks >
