:) Great! Well, since our chair was so enthusiastic and he and i
have been doing the recent releases, i'm going to go ahead and make
the changes. if anyone protests, i'll be happy to reverse them
(though that would be a PITA).
On 1/27/07, Henning P. Schmiedehausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"Nathan Bubna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>With two significant stable releases happening soon (Velocity 1.5 and
>VelocityTools 1.3), i'd like to nail down the distribution directory
>structure now. Changing these things is a pain due to mirroring,
>various link locations and such. I'd rather we get it straight and
>stick to it.
+1
>Rather than re-hash what's currently out there (which isn't even
>totally sync'd with people.apache.org as i write) and our various
>understandings of how it should be, i'd like to kick the discussion
>off with a proposed structure.
>under /dist/velocity, i propose we continue to keep our KEYS file and
>directories for engine and tools. directly under those directories,
+1
>we should have folders named after the most recent stable/production
>release and--if one exists--a more recent unstable/beta release.
+1
>Given our current releases, this would look like:
>dist/velocity/
> KEYS
> engine/
> 1.4/
> 1.5-beta2/
> tools
> 1.2/
> 1.3-rc1/
+1
>Since all releases on dist are automatically archived, we should not
>keep more than one stable and one unstable release for each branch of
>a project. So each time there is a stable/production release, both
>the old stable release and whatever beta/rc/alpha preceded the new
>stable release should be deleted.
+1
>The "current" symlinks VelocityTools has [had in the past] are a
>debatable issue. Personally, they're a pain to update, and i suspect
>they're not even an ASF endorsed procedure. Unless someone protests,
>i'm going to remove them.
+1 +1 +1
>If you like this, feel free to give a +1. If you don't please speak
>up soon, so i can get things moved around appropriately and update all
>our download links accordingly soon. :) If i don't hear anything on
>this by Monday afternoon (PST), i'll get started. though, i may do it
>earlier if everyone seems to be on board before then. :)
I fully agree with you on all points. Getting this more simple is
good. Getting it consistent is even better.
Best regards
Henning
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