[rkward-devel] files.kde.org vs. download.kde.org

[Ben Cooksley]

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:58 AM, Mario Fux <kde-ml at unormal.org> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 03. Februar 2015, 09.35:15 schrieb Thomas Friedrichsmeier:
>> Hi Mario,
>
> Morning Thomas

Hi Mario, Thomas,

>
> As Ben is one of our great sysadmins and he knows much better than me I CC
> him.
>
>> one quick question as we are getting nearer to a 0.6.3 release of
>> RKWard: What exactly is the difference between files.kde.org and
>> download.kde.org. We already have some add-on files (including debian
>> packages) on files.kde.org, and uploading there is really easy. OTOH,
>> most applications seem to have at least their source releases on
>> download.kde.org.
>>
>> So where would we upload:
>> - preview releases or snapshots
>> - the most recent stable release
>> - an archive of older releases
>>
>> If it makes any difference, is the answer different for released files:
>>   - in source form
>>   - in binary form
>>   - in "source bundle" form (including R and KDE)
>>   - in "binary bundle" form (including R and KDE)
>> The latter two are for Mac and Windows, and can get quite big (up to a
>> GB, roughly).
>
> I think release stuff goes to download.kde.org and files.kde.org is more for
> add-ons and Co. But Ben will tell you for sure.

Source code releases (alpha, beta, release candidate or final) should
go on download.kde.org as this is more secure.
As we make Git repositories available in tarball form it shouldn't be
necessary to offer snapshots in source code form.

Generally we tend to avoid making Linux binaries available - leaving
this up to various distributions to handle.
As for Windows / OSX - final releases usually go on download.kde.org,
while betas, etc. go on files.kde.org.

The above is how Krita handles it.

Not sure what these bundles are exactly... can you provide more detail
on these please?

>
> Thanks
> Mario

Thanks,
Ben