[NOTICE] Deletion of older releases from dist.apache.org

[Chesnay Schepler-3]

Hello,

I have just amended the release guide
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Creating+a+Flink+Release>
to specify that older releases should only be removed from
dist.apache.org after the release process has been completed.

Our current approach of deleting them when a new release was uploaded to
dist.apache.org implied a ~24h window where the download links on the
web page may be broken. (Because the flink-web PR is merged at the end
after the mirrors have catched up)

This also affected flink-docker,  which downloads the released binaries
for testing. During this window there was no stable link to any release,
as the old release was in the process of being deleted from mirrors,
while the new one was just being rolled out.

Please keep this in mind for future releases.

[Till Rohrmann]

Ack'ed

Thanks for updating the release guide Chesnay.

Cheers,
Till


On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 3:42 PM Chesnay Schepler <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have just amended the release guide
> <
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Creating+a+Flink+Release>
>
> to specify that older releases should only be removed from
> dist.apache.org after the release process has been completed.
>
> Our current approach of deleting them when a new release was uploaded to
> dist.apache.org implied a ~24h window where the download links on the
> web page may be broken. (Because the flink-web PR is merged at the end
> after the mirrors have catched up)
>
> This also affected flink-docker,  which downloads the released binaries
> for testing. During this window there was no stable link to any release,
> as the old release was in the process of being deleted from mirrors,
> while the new one was just being rolled out.
>
> Please keep this in mind for future releases.
>
>