In the past, we have kept old releases on www.apache.org/dist/httpd/ essentially indefinitely by moving them into "old/" directories. This is no longer a good idea for at least couple reasons:
1. Now that www.apache.org/dist/ contains (or will soon contain) all ASF releases, it is unreasonable to ask our mirrors to provide disk space for both current and past releases. A policy of leaving all releases on the mirrors would require many many gigabytes of disk space on every mirror. 2. Moving things from one directory to another in the release directory causes all the mirrors to need to resync, thereby wasting bandwidth. The new policy for releases is now at: http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html To impliment this policy, I will soon be going through the dist/httpd/ directory and removing all old/ directories and similar things. Please speak now if you have any objections to this. All of these old releases will remain permanently at http://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/. The archive site maintains an automatic copy of the main dist/httpd/ site, but it never deletes anything. Therefore, in the future, you need only place releases in the regular location, and delete them again after they are not current. Two quick related requests: - We could still use a couple more regular backups of archive.apache.org. Something like rsync -rtlzv --delete archive.apache.org::archive-site will do the trick if placed in a daily cron. Please let me know if you can do this. - If anyone has older releases of apache httpd (pre 1.2.6), now would be a great time to make them public again by dropping them into the archive site at minotaur.apache.org:/www/archive.apache.org/dist/httpd Thanks. Joshua.
