bbPress.org still has its legacy /plugins-downloads/ directory present in the repository. This was for bbPress 1.1 plugins, and is no longer used. Is it safe to remove this?
Also, are we still using the .htaccess in bbPress.org for anything? Was going to clean out some old rules, and realized it might not be necessary at all anymore.
Andrew Nacin 7:21 pm on November 3, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
All .htaccess files are historical, as everything is now nginx. They can safely be removed, and were simply left around for easy reference.
The file /usr/local/etc/conf.d/wporg-bbpress.org holds the nginx rules. If any of them can be removed, let me know.
The /plugins-downloads/ directory is used by the old plugin directory code as a place to svn export then build zips. As long as /plugins-plugins/ and all of that infrastructure remains (including nginx rules, cron jobs, etc.), so should this.
John James Jacoby 8:13 pm on November 3, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Thanks. I’m going to remove the .htaccess file now.
On bbPress.org, the /plugins-plugins/ directory was removed shortly after migrating the site to bbPress 2.1. What exists now is only a landing page of links to each Subversion repository, here: http://bbpress.org/plugins/legacy/
Going forward, all bbPress plugins exist on WordPress.org Extend, and there is no need to support /plugins-plugins/ infrastructure to build those zips.
Andrew Nacin 10:00 pm on November 3, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
My bad. /plugins-plugins/ still existed on my sandbox, but untracked by SVN (due to local modifications at time of deletion).
We can probably unmount /dl-archive/ at this point as well, as dl.php was removed four months ago and apparently no one complained. Indeed, /legacy/ simply links to the zip download link on Trac.
John James Jacoby 10:12 pm on November 3, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
Great. Thanks for the help.