Excellent.  I like it too.  Can you document this, maybe on the Wiki,
when you are done?

Actually, a good place to note the "one stable and one unstable" rule
is on the notes Henning created "How to do releases".

WILL

On 1/27/07, Nathan Bubna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:) 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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> Open Source Consulting, Development, Design | Velocity - Turbine guy
>
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