Cleaning up EOL releases

[Paul Spooren]

Hi,

> On 30. Jan 2026, at 19:47, Baptiste Jonglez <baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to clean up the following snapshot releases on the download
> server since they are end-of-life (see [1]):
> 
> 21.02-SNAPSHOT
> 22.03-SNAPSHOT
> 23.05-SNAPSHOT
> 
> Unless there are objections, I will go ahead in one week.

Sounds good, thanks! Just wondering, are there any commits after the latest point release? 

> Also, as a longer-term goal, we need to think about removing old releases
> from the main download server (we currently have everything since 17.01,
> and it's taking a lot of disk space as well as slowing down rsync).  Since
> early January, we already redirect CDN downloads to the archive server for
> old releases.  But I would also like to serve these old releases through
> rsync, in case somebody is interested in historical analysis.

This sounds like a niche use case where a recursive wget would also do the trick?

> As a first step, we could start removing -rc releases, since they already
> take significant space, and nobody is supposed to stay on -rc releases
> once a stable major release is out.  With the new mirror setup [2], we
> already exclude these old -rc releases from the "default mirror set".

While doing these clean ups, should we also upload things to archive.org?

Paul