On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 12:17, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 11.02.2021 12:02, Private List Moderation wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 07:04, Stefan Sperling <s...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:03:39PM -0500, Nathan Hartman wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 7:51 PM Private List Moderation < >> > mod-priv...@gsuite.cloud.apache.org> wrote: >> > > When I checked the download page, there were no links for versions >> 1.10.7 >> > > or 1.14.1. >> > > i.e. the 2 announce mails were telling people to download versions >> that >> > > were not on the download page. >> > > >> > > As such, I felt I had to reject the announce email. >> > > >> > > It looks as though the page has since been updated. >> > > >> > >> > >> > That was a race condition. >> >> Worse, it's a chicken-and-egg problem which is documented here: >> >> http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/releasing.html#releasing-release >> """ >> NOTE: We announce the release before updating the website since the >> website update links to the release announcement sent to the announce@ >> mailing list. >> """ >> >> > Which is worse for the end user? > - a broken link to the release announcement > - a missing link to the download artifact referenced by the official > announcement > > > You forgot: > - a missing release announcement. > > I'm pretty sure users are capable of telling us about missing links, but > not about missing announcements. > > Of course. But if I had sent an email to the dev list instead of rejecting the announce, the mail would still have been missing. -- Brane > >
