On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:44, Hyrum K. Wright > <hyrum_wri...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Justin Erenkrantz < > jus...@erenkrantz.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Hyrum K. Wright > >> <hyrum_wri...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote: > >> > 1) Is there a guide somewhere about how to use the ASF mirrors and > >> > release > >> > infrastructure? > >> > >> http://www.apache.org/dev/mirrors.html > >> > >> > 2) Is it possible for us to move the existing tarballs to somewhere on > >> > ASF > >> > infrastructure, so that we can maintain a complete archive of all past > >> > releases (without having to split up said archive)? > >> > >> Possible, yes, as there is no legal obstruction in doing so - however, > >> I'll leave it to Greg to provide a recommendation here. My suggestion > >> would be to import the old releases into archive.apache.org - but this > >> is a bit of uncharted territory for the ASF, so there may be some > >> policy wrangling that is best left to Greg. -- justin > > > > Greg, > > This looks like a good location, do you know what needs to happen so I > can > > get the appropriate privs to upload to the subversion/ directory there? > > > > Also, I'm planning on just putting the release tarballs, not the deps > > tarballs. Any reason why we should include the deps tarballs? > > Ah. Thanks for the reminder. > > Do the deps have code that is less permissive than the Apache license? > e.g MPL or LGPL (or GPL!) ? > Not sure. In the current set of tarballs, we've got sqlite, serf, apr, apr-util, neon, zlib, and possibly apr-iconv (in the zips). In the pre-1.4 days, we actually included the current deps in the shipping Subversion tarballs, but it might have been just apr, apr-util and neon at that point. > I believe we should have no problem with the svn tarballs themselves, > and will follow up on legal-discuss with that. > > Note that archive.apache.org is not mirrored. The mirroring system > applies just to current releases. > That's fine. I'm just looking to consolidate our artifacts in one location as part of the asymptotic move away from tigris. -Hyrum
