Grant Smith schrieb:
I was idling in #asfinfra on freenode yesterday and looking at the
logs now I see they did clean out that repository...
Just to let people know, there is currently some discussion going on at
the infrastructure list about this.
It was indeed the infra team who deleted all files older than 30 days,
as people.apache.org was running short of disk space.
The current opinion of the infra admins seems to be that they reserve
the right to delete stuff from the snapshot repo at any time, and that
any reliance on files staying in the snapshot repo for more than a
couple of days is wrong. In particular, some people are concerned that
allowing non-apache people access to the snapshot repo for any purpose
other than testing of artifacts is equivalent to bypassing the release
process, ie any use of this repo except for internal apache development
purposes is wrong (my phrasing).
A couple of contrary opinions have been expressed; I'll let you know
what the final conclusion is.
Regards,
Simon
