On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 01:10 AM, Incze Lajos wrote:
>>> I would advertise the "http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/"; URL, as it's >>> stable and you can find anything you want from there. Also, you can >>> spare a couple of web site updates when something new arises in e.g. >>> the nightly builds. >> >> i'm a bit confused. >> >> aren't the build urls already there under the downloads section of the >> project information on the left of each page? >> >> - robert > > The download section lists (binary and source) URLs to certain (most) > projects. > However the above URL contains much more than that is advertised there. > E.g. on the http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.html page you > can't see nightly builds for regexp or oro. If you check them, then > regexp HAS nightly build while oro really has not. > > What I propsed is to advertise the single URL > http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/ > and describe the structure under that. This way everybody can see for sure > what exists and what does not (and you don't have to update allways the > download section. The simplest solution (I think) to point the "download" > to this URL and all the other materials can be put into a README under > this URL. > > Just an idea (I hate site management). i think i understand you a bit better now. how the jakarta web pages work is that the core pages (associated with jakarta as a whole) are kept together in a cvs module called jakarta-site2. then each (sub)project (for example, the commons) maintains there own pages as well. i was talking about an update to the commons pages only. i think that the pages you're talking about are in the main site pages. the right list to talk about improvements is [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than cc a copy there, i can offer you a good guess as to what their response will be: you'll be told - submit a patch! to help you get started, you should checkout a copy of jakarta-site2 from cvs and then read http://jakarta.apache.org/site/jakarta-site2.html. i think that the file you'll need to patch is jakarta-site2/xdocs/stylesheets/project.xml. - robert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
