From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757534Ab0BLTcO (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:32:14 -0500 Received: from bamako.nerim.net ([62.4.17.28]:54959 "EHLO bamako.nerim.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757488Ab0BLTcM (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:32:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:32:09 +0100 From: Jean Delvare To: Phillip Lougher Cc: "J.H." , "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , users@kernel.org, lasse.collin@tukaani.org, linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion Message-ID: <20100212203209.0cb8afc3@hyperion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <4B75A5CF.70308@lougher.demon.co.uk> References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100212150137.648dca7c@hyperion.delvare> <4B75A5CF.70308@lougher.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.14.4; i586-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:02:39 +0000, Phillip Lougher wrote: > 5* Archive all the older 2.6.x files and move them into a separate > directory (e.g. v2.6-pre20). Moving all the pre 2.6.20 files > saves 42% of the file listing. > > This seems an obvious solution, what am I missing? This is confusing, inconsistent and unstable. Confusing because 2.6-pre referred so far to the releases immediately preceding 2.6.0. Inconsistent because it requires the downloader to have preliminary knowledge about what the break point is. Unstable because, while you consider pre20 to qualify as "old" today, in 5 years you will want pre30 to qualify as "old" instead, meaning that tools such as ketchup would have to be updated once again. I think we want to come up with a directory structure which won't change in the future. -- Jean Delvare