On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Marcel Offermans <marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2012, at 13:52 , Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Martijn Dashorst >> <martijn.dasho...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Give me a URL where this policy is and I'll edit it. >>> >>> http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html >> >> While I agree that the page has a lot to say about putting releases on >> /dist, I could not find any point in which it said, in so many words, >> that /dist was required. I do, however, see how people would take that >> implication. > > It does state that all releases must be archived on > http://archive.apache.org/dist/ so I think that more or less implies that all > releases must be put on /dist. > > I just feel that as soon as we start making exceptions, we will end up with > many, and I really don't understand why this exception is necessary in the > first place. In fact, I think it's a great benefit that all releases can be > found in one single location, no exceptions. > >> So, I edited it to say the opposite for this case. I'm not pushing the >> publish button; rather, I've started a thread on infra@ (which seems >> to supervise this content) inviting people to tell me that I am wrong. >> If I am still wearing my head tonight on the subject, I'll push the >> publish button. > > I objected there as well, to me this is a big policy change, and one that I > don't understand the reason of.
I think one thread of debate on this is enough, so I won't reply further here. > > Greetings, Marcel > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
