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From: Ian Holsman <ian@holsman.net>
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Subject: removing old releases
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:19:54 -0400
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I've had a look at hadoop's dist area =
(http://www.apache.org/dist/hadoop/ )=20
and was wondering which of these people think we should do here.

If no one objects within a week, I will remove everything except the =
hadoop-0.20.2,=20
hadoop-21.0, and stable directories there.

Thanks
Ian

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Mark Thomas <m>
> Date: April 27, 2011 8:07:53 AM EDT
> Subject: Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] www.apache.org/dist/<tlp> housekeeping
>=20

> PMC members,
>=20
> Six weeks ago, the infrastructure team sent you the e-mail below. To =
the
> projects that were already following the release guidelines and to =
those
> projects that have since cleaned up their /dist area - thank you. The
> infrastructure team really does appreciate you doing this.
>=20
> Regrettably, a large number of PMCs have chosen to ignore the message
> below. To those PMCs, you have one month (until 31 May 2011) to clean =
up
> your dist area or the infrastructure team will simply remove all files
> that are more than twelve months old.
>=20
> Mark
> on behalf of the ASF Infrastructure Team
>=20
> On 10/03/2011 08:16, Mark Thomas wrote:
>> PMC members,
>>=20
>> As the ASF grows in size, so does the total size of the distribution
>> artefacts we ask our mirror community to support for us. The larger =
this
>> total size, the greater the strain on both ASF infrastructure and on =
the
>> mirroring system.
>>=20
>> As per the release guidelines [1], only current releases should be
>> available at http://www.apache.org/dist/. Monitoring of
>> http://www.apache.org/dist/ [2] shows that some projects are not
>> removing old releases. This is placing an unnecessary strain on both =
ASF
>> infrastructure and on our mirror volunteers.
>>=20
>> Thanks to those PMCs that have been removing old releases from their
>> distribution directory. The infrastructure appreciates you keeping on
>> top of this.
>>=20
>> PMCs that have not been removing old releases are required to review
>> their current distribution directory and remove any old releases.
>> - PMCs using svnpubsub should remove old releases via svn.
>> - PMCs not using svnpubsub should remove old releases directly from
>> /www/www.apache.org/dist/<tlp> on people.apache.org at. Note that any
>> deletions may take up to 24 hours to replicate to =
http://www.apache.org/dist
>> In both cases it may take longer for changes to replicate to mirrors.
>>=20
>> Old releases removed from http://www.apache.org/dist/ are not lost.
>> Release are automatically copied to http://archive.apache.org/dist/ =
and
>> are never deleted.
>>=20
>> This inevitably raises the question what is a current release and =
what
>> is an old release. To some extent, this varies from project to =
project
>> but typically it amounts to the following:
>> a) latest release of the current branch
>> b) latest stable release of the current branch
>> c) latest stable release of previous branches
>>=20
>> It is hard to give concrete examples that apply to all projects since
>> each project is free to use its own release numbering scheme. =
However, a
>> project that includes versions 2.1.0, 2.1.1 and 2.1.2 in its release
>> directory almost certainly has some cleaning up to do. A project that
>> includes 1.0.6, 1.1.5 and 2.0.7 probably doesn't.
>>=20
>> If you have any questions about how to manage your distribution
>> directory please contact the infrastructure team.
>>=20
>> Thanks in advance,
>>=20
>> Mark
>> on behalf of the ASF Infrastructure Team
>>=20
>>=20
>> [1] http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html
>> [2] http://people.apache.org/~henkp/tlps/
>=20
>=20
>=20

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