Hi Niall,
>> [...]
>> Dist is the active archive. The archive.apache.org is the "deep archive". Both should
exist, and both should have a copy of the data.
>>
>
> Dist isn't an archive - its a distribution area archive.apache.org is
> the archive.
I respectfully disagree.
Cheers,
Chris
>
> Niall
>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>>>
>>> Niall
>>>
>>>>> Keeping the dist area tidy with only current releases
>>>>> means that this huge ASF-wide content is mirrored efficiently.
>>>>
>>>> At what cost? In my mind, there is a subtle point lost here.
>>>>
>>>> Archiving is good and it has to do with mirroring. What i'm advocating for
is preservation. We should never delete the original copy dists for *any project*. It creates
disconnects between the world-wide mirroring system that is called email, and locally caching
things, and archiving and cataloging links.
>>>>
>>>> The cost of invalidating those negates a ton of the savings that you're proposing.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, we don't mirror archive.a.o via that dist system.
>>>>
>>>> Gotcha.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I just had a look at Tika download page. It does as i suggested
>>>>> earlier: They link to
>>>>> archive.apache.org/dist/tika/
>>>>> for old releases
>>>>> and to
>>>>> archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/tika/
>>>>> for the older incubator releases.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah I think we updated that. I couldn't remember if we actually directly
linked to incubator.a.o. I think I might have even updated that when I noticed the links were
broke on the site.
>>>>
>>>> Regardless, we should haven't to update it it. I'm proposing that's *it's
a good thing* to have an original + 1 copy from a reliability and software preservation perspective.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Chris
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