On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 4:51 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I alone can't decide on this (though I sort of agree with you). Lets see > how > > others react to the topic of having or not having MD5 hashes, and we can > > accordingly finalize as this voting concludes. > > The ASF policy was updated recently, as notified to the PMC at the > beginning of March: > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d11f3dbcfe844b4d1eb06ba09c9f53 > 3bfbbc1f0a1a808185984832f6@%3Cprivate.xerces.apache.org%3E > > Thanks for this information. Its useful.
> > If we look at this page, > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/xerces/j/2.12.0/ it says on top, > > "dist - Revision 26466: /dev/xerces/j/2.12.0" > > > > Are you talking about the revision number I've marked in bold emphasis? > Do > > you require mentioning this revision number in voting mails (along side > the > > link, https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/xerces/j/2.12.0/) ? > > Yes, it needs to be in the email so one can trace the provenance later > if necessary. > This is particularly true of /dist/dev/ URLs as those are generally > moved / deleted after use. > And indeed re-used, as here. I've deleted the .md5 files from the location, https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/xerces/j/2.12.0/. I'll write a new voting mail again, as a continuation of this thread. -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
