Hi all
our current policy was to delete old releases from sf.net once newer release is available. I find this not so good idea, for following reasons:
- people might be interested in looking at older releases without using vcs - distributions ship some older releases and it is good if users can verify that they ship intact tarball as we've distributed it - most free software projects simply keep all their released files around
Are there any objections against keeping all what we've released?
Hi all,
2010/9/10 Michal Čihař michal@cihar.com:
Hi all
our current policy was to delete old releases from sf.net once newer release is available. I find this not so good idea, for following reasons:
- people might be interested in looking at older releases without using
vcs
- distributions ship some older releases and it is good if users can
verify that they ship intact tarball as we've distributed it
- most free software projects simply keep all their released files
around
Are there any objections against keeping all what we've released?
No objections, just a question : Does sf.net limit the amount of release files (both total size and number)?
Greets,
Dieter
Hi
Dne Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:48:50 +0200 Dieter Adriaenssens dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com napsal(a):
No objections, just a question : Does sf.net limit the amount of release files (both total size and number)?
I'm not aware of any limit.
Michal Čihař a écrit :
Hi all
our current policy was to delete old releases from sf.net once newer release is available. I find this not so good idea, for following reasons:
- people might be interested in looking at older releases without using vcs
- distributions ship some older releases and it is good if users can verify that they ship intact tarball as we've distributed it
- most free software projects simply keep all their released files around
Are there any objections against keeping all what we've released?
When you say "all" I hope you're not talking about non-final releases?
It's OK for me (for final releases).
I was the one who deleted older releases, mostly to avoid offering kits with security problems, and to have a cleaner download page. With about ten releases per year I feared the page would become cluttered over time.
What about deleted kits? I don't have the time to recreate all these.
Hi
Dne Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:34:32 -0400 Marc Delisle marc@infomarc.info napsal(a):
When you say "all" I hope you're not talking about non-final releases?
It probably has less sense for non final releases, right.
I was the one who deleted older releases, mostly to avoid offering kits with security problems, and to have a cleaner download page. With about ten releases per year I feared the page would become cluttered over time.
I don't think its such a problem when there are folders for each version. check for example webadmin: https://sourceforge.net/projects/webadmin/files/
What about deleted kits? I don't have the time to recreate all these.
I had no intention to recreate older tarballs. Anyway we can not create them exactly as they were released.
Hi,
2010/9/10 Michal Čihař michal@cihar.com:
Hi
Dne Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:34:32 -0400 Marc Delisle marc@infomarc.info napsal(a):
What about deleted kits? I don't have the time to recreate all these.
I had no intention to recreate older tarballs. Anyway we can not create them exactly as they were released.
Maybe we can just keep the released files (except the rc's) from now on, without recreating the old ones.
Hi
Dne Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:18:51 +0200 Dieter Adriaenssens dieter.adriaenssens@gmail.com napsal(a):
Hi,
2010/9/10 Michal Čihař michal@cihar.com:
Hi
Dne Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:34:32 -0400 Marc Delisle marc@infomarc.info napsal(a):
What about deleted kits? I don't have the time to recreate all these.
I had no intention to recreate older tarballs. Anyway we can not create them exactly as they were released.
Maybe we can just keep the released files (except the rc's) from now on, without recreating the old ones.
This is exactly what I wanted :-).
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Dieter Adriaenssens -
Marc Delisle -
Michal Čihař