Re: [gemoc-dev] [GEMOC] Moving older releases and milstones to archive.e

[Benoit Combemale <benoit.combemale@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Didier, 

The choice (imposed by Eclipse?) to only have a short term URL for the latest milestone is very tough and damaging. The usual scenario is to initially communicate on the latest milestone (yes, we are proud of the latest feature, and happy to communicate on it), and then this communication remains over the time. However, the latest milestone become eventually the non latest, meaning now the URL is not anymore valid. 

In conclusion, it’s not anymore possible to communicate (i.e. archival materials such as slides, articles, tutorials, etc.) on the latest milestone… 

I do not think this can be acceptable, and need a deeper discussion on the topics, such as we can have sustainable URLs (why not putting directly on archive.eclipse.org? Or to manage redirect? Or?). In the meantime, this imposes us to only communicate about <gemoc.org/studio + version> to keep sustainable the information we provide. 

All the best, 

benoit

Le 16 déc. 2019 à 14:54, Didier Vojtisek <didier.vojtisek@xxxxxxxx> a écrit :

Hi

As asked by Eclipse webmasters, we're moving our older milestones and releases to archive.eclipse.org instead of download.eclipse.org  (in order to decrease the overhead on the mirror servers)

We will keep on the main download server only the latest milestone, the latest release, and the latest nightly build.

Obviously, we'll update the links on the release note pages of each of these milestone/release but if for some reason you have some direct links (e.g. in a research paper, in a tutorial) you may have to update them.

Examples of URLs:

• link to a release note:
  
• http://gemoc.org/studio_releases/eclipse_package/updatesite/2019/12/16/V3.2.0-20191216.html
• This url shall not change overtime
  
• link to an artifact but using mirror for faster transferts: 
  
• https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/gemoc/packages/milestones/3.2.0-20191216/gemoc_studio-linux.gtk.x86_64.zip
  
• link to the same artifact on the source server at Eclipse: (may be slow for non US)
  
• https://download.eclipse.org/gemoc/packages/milestones/3.2.0-20191216/gemoc_studio-linux.gtk.x86_64.zip
  
• link to the same artifact when it will be archived (i.e. on next milestone)
  
• https://archive.eclipse.org/gemoc/packages/milestones/3.2.0-20191216/gemoc_studio-linux.gtk.x86_64.zip 

Best regards

Didier

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