Ack'ed Thanks for updating the release guide Chesnay.
Cheers, Till On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:42 PM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I have just amended the release guide > < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Creating+a+Flink+Release> > > to specify that older releases should only be removed from > dist.apache.org after the release process has been completed. > > Our current approach of deleting them when a new release was uploaded to > dist.apache.org implied a ~24h window where the download links on the > web page may be broken. (Because the flink-web PR is merged at the end > after the mirrors have catched up) > > This also affected flink-docker, which downloads the released binaries > for testing. During this window there was no stable link to any release, > as the old release was in the process of being deleted from mirrors, > while the new one was just being rolled out. > > Please keep this in mind for future releases. > >
