On 01/09/2013 Henk P. Penning wrote:
For 4.0.0 I added the binaries slowly ; some 4 to 5 languages
a day is what the rsync servers can handle. So, it takes 5 days
for the quick mirrors plus 2 days for the straglers. Note that
there are some sites that are still trying to catch up.
Soon after GA date (or earlier), refs to 4.0.0 sigs and sums should
point to 'archive.apache.org/' (instead of www.apache.org).
I would very much avoid introducing another bottleneck in the process.
Voting on the release already takes 3 days, and we won't start copying
anything before we have the final result, as we learned from 4.0. For
4.0, after the release was approved, we managed to have it uploaded to
the mirrors (the SF mirrors) rather quickly, and at the same time the
checksums/signatures, being very small files, were quickly uploaded to
dist. This may have taken 2 days, but not more.
With this change we would have 3 days for voting plus 7 days for copying
to mirrors before we can announce. And the benefits would be very
marginal: the number of users who download from the Apache mirrors is
negligible.
So, in short, if this can be done in a way that does not slow down the
post-approval upload period from 2 days to 7 days, fine; otherwise, it
is better to repeat what was done for 4.0: within 2 days binaries on SF
and checksums on dist or, even better, already on archive -which is
automatically populated from dist but has a 24-hour delay- so that we
don't need to update the links later; then, gradually, binaries uploaded
to dist too (this time the delay may be a matter of days instead of weeks).
Regards,
Andrea.
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