Re: distribution cleanup

Stephen McConnell wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Leo Simons [mailto:[email protected]]
>>Sent: 23 October 2004 22:52
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: distribution cleanup
>>
>>Hi gang,
>>
>>I'm now in the process of moving framework, logkit and cornerstone to
>>the excalibur project (I found out I still have access :-D). When I
>>finish with the SVN migration, I want to start cleaning out
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> repositories.
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>>I plan to copy|move|symlink (still need to figure that out, the key is
>>no URLs break and not too much bandwidth strain on the mirrors) the
>>_most recent_ excalibur-* *fortress* *framework* materials over to the
>>/dist/excalibur location. Most recent means only the latest release of
>>everything.
>>
>>I suggest removing all other versions of all those packages (ie cd
>>/www/www.apache.org/dist/avalon; rm -Rf *excalibur* *framework*
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> *logkit*
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>>*phoenix* *cornerstone*), and all phoenix materials, from the main
>>distribution server and from all the mirrors. This means the location
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> to
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>>access those packages becomes
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>>    http://archive.apache.org/
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>>(archive.apache rsyncs the dist materials but never deletes anything).
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> I
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>>plan to leave all the merlin|repository|planet|etc stuff alone.
>>
>>thoughts?
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> 
> 
> Strong request that you do *not* remove *any* content (but feel free to
> copy whatever you like). Please note that there has been no board nor
> Avalon PMC decision on this subject.  In the meantime work is going on
> concerning migration and I strongly recommend that nobody disrupts
> anything before migration of everything is complete and *this* community
> signs off on that process.

Agreed.

Copy all you want, but don't break any more URLs.

-- 
Stefano.