Re: Release download locations

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 19:04 -0600, Cody Russell wrote:
> The gtk.org website's download section links to
> ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/2.12/ and it appears that Matthias posts the
> releases to http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtk+/2.12/ 
> 
> Going by the website, the latest release shown on the front page is
> 2.12.3, and the latest release on ftp.gtk.org is 2.12.6.
> 
> So, two things:  Should the download URL just be switched to
> ftp.gnome.org?  And do we need someone to update the news on the front
> page when releases are made?  I don't mind volunteering for this for now
> if it's something that needs doing.

What I typically do when releasing pango is:

- Upload to gnome.org and install-module
- Wait for mirrors to catch up, sending out release announcement to fill
the time
- ssh to gtk.org and run my script to mirror the tarballs from
gnome.org.  That is, if the harddisk is not full again...
- If I remember to do it, update the webpage.

Also note that the preferred address for gnome.org tarballs is
download.gnome.org/


> / Cody

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