[wtp-releng] Here's the coolest thing I've done all year: change in comm

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

As all committers know, our continuous
builds are published to 
http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/committers/

And, then once a week we move one to

http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/

This is actually a strain on the Eclipse
Foundation infrastructure, since the 'download' servers are tuned to give
out lots of data, but not receive (and replicate) lots of data. 

So, it's been a long standing request
for us to not upload to it continuously. 

In a few days, we will not. 

Instead, you can get our continuous
builds directly from the build machine. See 
http://build.eclipse.org/webtools/committers/

We will still promote a weekly build
to the download server, where it can be mirrored, etc., but the daily builds
should be easier or quicker for us committers to get, since we don't have
to wait for replication, and the infrastructure won't be quite so overloaded
replicating things it doesn't need to). This assumes of course, that we
don't get thousands of download requests from the build machine, but we
should not, for any reason I know. 

So, thought I'd give this little bit
of early notice, in case anyone has any scripts to adjust, or sees issues
I'm not aware of.  
I have a little tweaking to do, but
the build server committers download area can be seen now at 
http://build.eclipse.org/webtools/committers/
I'll leave a re-direction page in place
when we actually stop uploading to 'committers' download server. 

Thanks, 

P.S. The year is young :)