Swordfish: Retention Policy

Retention Policy for Swordfish Builds

NOTE: Work in progress. Not yet released retention policy!

Releases

Beginning with the Eclipse Helios release cycle (Swordfish 0.10.0 and onward) formal releases are kept forever.

Formal releases are

• Builds included within yearly Eclipse Simultaneous Releases.
• Builds included within Eclipse Maintenance Releases.
• Officially released Swordfish builds outside the Eclipse release cycles.

Formal releases are available

• from within the Swordfish update site repositories (see list below).
• as ZIP distributions downloadable from the main Swordfish download page.
• from within the Eclipse Simultaneous Release repositories.

NOTE:

Drops, which are distributed within the Eclipse Simultaneous Release repositories follow the correspondend retention policy of these repositories.

Currently all formal releases are kept on the mentioned locations. As soon as possibly required, older distributions might be moved to an archive site.

Milestones

While developing new releases, milestone builds are kept until the release, at which point they are deleted.

Patches

Repository	Repository URL	Retention Policy
Swordfish Galileo milestones	http://download.eclipse.org/swordfish/milestones/galileo	Content replaced every milestone.
Swordfish Galileo release builds	http://download.eclipse.org/swordfish/releases/galileo	Retained indefinitely. Probably archived at a later point in time.
Swordfish Galileo maintenance builds	http://download.eclipse.org/swordfish/releases/galileo	Retained indefinitely. Probably archived at a later point in time.
Swordfish Helios milestones	http://download.eclipse.org/swordfish/milestones/helios	Content replaced every milestone.
Swordfish Helios releases	http://download.eclipse.org/swordfish/releases/helios	Retained indefinitely. Probably archived at a later point in time.
Swordfish ZIP distributions	http://www.eclipse.org/swordfish/downloads	Retained indefinitely. Probably archived at a later point in time.