Moving conversation to dev@
On 31 July 2013 13:28, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/31/13 1:07 PM, janI wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Based on a discussion today on IRC, I would like to draw your attention > > to the following challenge. henkp is cc because he is the infra person > > doing the rsync magic. > > > > ASF has a policy that incubator/xxx should be removed when the project > > graduates. We still have our 3.4.1 (and 3.3.0) release stored under > > incubator. > > > > As part of cleaning rsync, infra want to enforce the policy, but of > > course respect and understand our need to have 3.4.1 available to users > > (especially because 3.4.1 contains languages not released in 4.0). > > > > I see the following possibilities: > > > > 1) remove openoffice from incubator, but leave version 3.3.0 and 3.4.1 > > (with language packs) on the SF mirror. This is preferred by infra. > > +1 to keep it on SF > > > > > 2) remove 3.3.0 since its a legacy version, and move 3.4.1 parallel to > > 4.0. This is however an expensive operation for all mirror, and should > > only be done if we anticipate patches for 3.4.1 > > > > Removing 3.3 is ok to me but I see demand for keeping 3.4.1. Having it > besides 4.0 would be natural but needs some work in the download scripts > ... > Just for me, do you prefer 1) or 2) ... I personally dont see a big need to keep 3.4.1 on our servers. rgds jan I. > 3) persuade infra to keep incubator for 3.4.1, but limit the footprint > as much as possible, remove 3.3.0 and put a timelimit up. > I believe we can manage to move it out of the incubator in some way. > > > We are also adviced, that if/when we change our layout infra need to be > > adviced well in advance. In my opinion we should consider not using > > externaldist, but have the total release in one folder with subfolders. > > Well externaldist was not our idea and I copied the files in this > structure of advice from infra. We should first clarify what's preferred > here. "externaldist" caused some confusion and extra work on our side as > well. > > > > > We can move the discussion to dev@ is nobody objects. > > yes let's move to dev > > Juergen > > > > > rgds > > jan I. > >
