On 31 July 2013 21:31, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > Am 07/31/2013 03:06 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:33 AM, janI<j...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> Moving conversation to dev@ >>> >>> >>> On 31 July 2013 13:28, Jürgen Schmidt<jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 7/31/13 1:07 PM, janI wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi. >>>>> >>>>> Based on a discussion today on IRC, I would like to draw your attention >>>>> to the following challenge. henkp is cc because he is the infra person >>>>> doing the rsync magic. >>>>> >>>>> ASF has a policy that incubator/xxx should be removed when the project >>>>> graduates. We still have our 3.4.1 (and 3.3.0) release stored under >>>>> incubator. >>>>> >>>>> As part of cleaning rsync, infra want to enforce the policy, but of >>>>> course respect and understand our need to have 3.4.1 available to users >>>>> (especially because 3.4.1 contains languages not released in 4.0). >>>>> >>>>> I see the following possibilities: >>>>> >>>>> 1) remove openoffice from incubator, but leave version 3.3.0 and 3.4.1 >>>>> (with language packs) on the SF mirror. This is preferred by infra. >>>> >>>> >>>> +1 to keep it on SF >>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2) remove 3.3.0 since its a legacy version, and move 3.4.1 parallel to >>>>> 4.0. This is however an expensive operation for all mirror, and should >>>>> only be done if we anticipate patches for 3.4.1 >>>>> >>>> >>>> Removing 3.3 is ok to me but I see demand for keeping 3.4.1. Having it >>>> besides 4.0 would be natural but needs some work in the download scripts >>>> ... >>> >>> >>> >>> Just for me, do you prefer 1) or 2) ... I personally dont see a big need >>> to >>> keep 3.4.1 on our servers. >>> >> >> INHO it is fine to keep 3.4.1 and early on archive.apache.org and SF >> only, provided Infra is OK with us pointing our website links for the >> hashes and signatures of 3.4.1 and earlier to archive and not to the >> dist. I don't think the bandwidth will be significant for these. > > > I was told that these files must be linked from "www.apache.org/dist/" only > and always. If we can get now an exception for "archive.apache.org/dist/" - > hey, it's hosted by Apache, too :-) - this would be good.
www.apache.org/dist/ - current release(s) archive.apache.org/dist/ - archived releases See: http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html#location http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#when-to-archive > Marcus > > > > >>>> 3) persuade infra to keep incubator for 3.4.1, but limit the footprint >>>> as much as possible, remove 3.3.0 and put a timelimit up. >>>> >>> >>>> I believe we can manage to move it out of the incubator in some way. >>>> >>>>> We are also adviced, that if/when we change our layout infra need to be >>>>> adviced well in advance. In my opinion we should consider not using >>>>> externaldist, but have the total release in one folder with subfolders. >>>> >>>> >>>> Well externaldist was not our idea and I copied the files in this >>>> structure of advice from infra. We should first clarify what's preferred >>>> here. "externaldist" caused some confusion and extra work on our side as >>>> well. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> We can move the discussion to dev@ is nobody objects. >>>> >>>> >>>> yes let's move to dev >>>> >>>> Juergen >>>> >>>>> >>>>> rgds >>>>> jan I. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
