On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Mark R. Diggory wrote:
1.) do not allow any interim content into www/dist. Interm content gets placed under cvs.apache.org/repository. This gives us a means to allow testing of interim content while not having all the mirrors (including ibibilio and the archive) get flooded with it.
I am not intimately familiar with the maven way of doing things. (I am intimately familiar with the apache mirror system.) In order to understand the problem here, perhaps someone can explain exactly what is the problem with number 1 above. This is the current status-quo and seems to work fine for most projects.
There are several good reasons we don't want snapshot releases in the main dist directory:
1) Communication: An apache release should be something the developers stand behind as quality software, not an arbitrary, untested snapshot of cvs. If projects (with the approval of their PMC) want to make beta releases and place them in the main dist directory, that is fine. But users should know that the stuff they grab from www.apache.org/dist/ has some level of quality.
2) Bandwidth: Anything placed under www.apache.org/dist/ gets an automatic 500 downloads in its first month (and around 300 in its first day) through rsyncs from mirrors. Putting very-short-lived stuff on here could result in excessive bandwith usage, which is exactly the opposite of what the mirrors are supposed to provide.
3) Archiving: Our archives are made up of everything that has lived on www.apache.org/dist/. Putting very-short-lived stuff there will result in bloated and irrelevant archives.
Joshua.
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