I did some archeology detective work to find how we ended up with three separate release packages.
Aside: Way too much time wandering around broken email archives, grrr. With some of the links, i at least used the Apache URL Shortener to go via the Gmane message-id service. I found that some links to there do still work. However, if they have gone then we should be able to get the message-id from the Shortener (i thought that it was by appending "?action=display", but no) and then use some other email archive to lookup with the message-id. Surely lists.apache.org can do that but i cannot find how. So on our download page we link to two separate packages: apache-forrest-0.9-sources.tar.gz apache-forrest-0.9-dependencies.tar.gz Yet the $FORREST_HOME/main/build.xml only generates apache-forrest-0.9.tar.gz Our "How_to_release" doc does not mention the separate "*-sources" and "*.dependencies" packages. Looking behind the scenes at: http://archive.apache.org/dist/forrest/ Shows that the "*-sources" and "*.dependencies" packages are dated 2012-11-21 and the other one is dated earlier at 2011-02-01. The date 2011-02-01 is our original 0.9 release date. The source of our download mirrors page was edited around 2012-04-20 to link to those separate packages. Going back to the mail archives around March April 2012 shows that we needed to re-release 0.9: Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:55:13 +1100 From: David Crossley <cross...@apache.org> To: dev@forrest.apache.org Subject: [Proposal] re-release 0.9 with proper source code package Message-ID: <20120329065513.GA6677@igg.local> See its linked message from Roy that: > ... jar files of dependencies -- they are NOT our product and they > MUST NOT be present in the source code package that is voted on for release. We did our original release of apache-forrest-0.9.tar.gz on 2011-02-01 then followed up with a proper "sources-only" release on 2012-04-19. Note that the "How_to_release" doc and the main/build.xml have not been updated to do that. Why were those packages amended on 2012-11-21? I reckon that that is probably this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1239 utilise svnpubsub for Forrest distribution area Then around 2013-11-29 a distribution maintainer asked about the separate packages and could we provide a combined one: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-1244 "Fat tar" for easier installation I did provide the instructions there to enable one of the Forrest PMC to combine the packages into one and deploy that to the dist area. I presume that no-one did, otherwise the apache-forrest-0.9.tar.gz would have a date newer than the original of 2011-02-01. So that is considered to be a convenience archive, but not the one called for in FOR-1244. Gavin commented yesterday in that FOR-1244 wondering about the release packaging. I will link from there to here to help explain. Good luck, i hope that this history helps. -David
