FYI On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 7:04 AM Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hello, Apache PMCs, > > In order to better provide our millions of users with downloads, the > Apache Infrastructure Team has been restructuring the way downloads work > for our main distribution channels in the past few weeks. For users, > this will largely go unnoticed, and for projects likely the same, but we > did want to reach out to projects and inform them of the changes we've > made: > > As of March 2020, we are deprecating www.apache.org/dist/ in favor of > https://downloads.apache.org/ for backup downloads as well as signature > and checksum verification. The primary driver has been splitting up web > site visits and downloads to gain better control and offer a better > service for both downloads and web site visits. > > As stated, this does not impact end-users, and should have a minimal > impact on projects, as our download selectors as well as visits to > www.apache.org/dist/ have been adjusted to make use of > downloads.apache.org instead. We do however ask that projects, in their > own time-frame, change references on their own web sites from > www.apache.org/dist/ to downloads.apache.org wherever such references > may exist, to complete the switch in full. We will NOT be turning off > www.apache.org/dist/ in the near future, but would greatly appreciate if > projects could help us transition away from the old URLs in their > documentation and on their download pages. > > The standard way of uploading releases[1] will STILL apply, however > there may be a short delay (<= 15 minutes) between releasing and > releases showing up on downloads.apache.org for technical reasons. > > If you have any questions about this change, please do not hesitate > to reach out to us at us...@infra.apache.org. > > With regards, > Daniel on behalf of ASF Infrastructure. > > [1] https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#upload-ci >
