Using download.cgi or closer.lua (ie. using the mirror network) has been Apache policy since its inception. This is not "recently".
http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#host-GA On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 3:48 AM, Pierre Smits <pierresm...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > In dec 2017 the Apache Trafodion Project graduated from incubation. > > As any other podling we released our works several times. And we announced > releases via announce@a.o. In those announcements we mentioned where > (potential) adopters could download the code from, and we advised to either > download from/via our project's download page or from/via > > https://dist.apache.org > > > I want to make (P)PMC Members and podling mentors aware that (since > recently) this is not allowed. Each latest release download must be > from/via: > > https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/<podlingName> > > > and that older releases must be from/via: > > https://archive.apache.org/dist/<podlingName> > > > > Best regards, > > Pierre Smits > > V.P. Apache Trafodion >