Kathey Marsden wrote: > I think it would be good from the download page to point to the nightly > builds that Ole posts for users to try out if they want to be daring: > > 10.2 - http://www.multinet.no/~solberg/public/Apache/Derby/builds/ > 10.1 - http://www.multinet.no/~solberg/public/Apache/Derby-10.1/builds/
It would be easy for http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html to point to an index of nightly builds on http://www.multinet.no/~solberg/public/ It's hard to automatically rebuild the web site nightly to point to each specific new build (more details below). > I also think it would be good for the public API javadoc to be linked > from the Manuals page. > I know it is linked from the Papers page, but I don't think users would I think this point is resolved in your followup post. > Three questions: > 1) Does anyone see any issue with linking these builds to the download > page with suitable disclaimers? Linking to each new build is a problem because the web site would need to be automatically regenerated, committed, then checked out on people.apache.org. (Details are in http://www.apache.org/dev/project-site.html ; what isn't said is the ASF infrastructure volunteers depend on built pages being checked into svn so in the case of a system failure they can simply check the built websites out of svn, possibly on a new machine.) Linking from http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html to another index page of the builds outside the Derby web site shouldn't be a problem -- and disclaimers are needed. I think there might be an ASF policy wrt to nightly builds. I'll chase it down if somebody doesn't beat me to it. > 2) I noticed the 10.1 page talks about the alpha flag which I think is > not applicable. Which page? could you provide the complete URL? > 3) Should I fiile this as 2 Jira issues or lump them together as one? I think maybe a more generic issue is "how to make nightly builds available". -jean > Kathey > >
