Hi David, I made some comments and votes largely in line with what's been discussed...
On 4 June 2013 12:24, David Bosschaert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 May 2013 14:43, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On May 27, 2013, at 10:18 AM, David Bosschaert <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Downloads >> > * This page was last updated for the 1.0.0 release train and I wonder >> > whether we need it. All this info is available in Maven Central, can we >> not >> > simply remove it? >> > * Release notes. Since we are now supporting modular releases, do central >> > release notes make sense? I would simply remove this page. >> > * Archived releases - again, can we simply leverage Maven central for >> this? >> >> No for 1 and 3. Per Apache policy, the releases must be downloadable from >> the Apache mirror network and old releases available from >> archive.apache.org/dist. >> >> > I didn't hear any objections to the other suggestions I made. If nobody > shouts soon I'll make the changes I outlined in my original email (pasted > below for reference) with the exception of the items pointed out by Dan > above. > > Again - we can always add any of these pages back later if we want. I just > want to get rid of as much stuff that is blatantly out of date... > > Cheers, > > David > > ---- > Original mail: > > Hi all, > > I had a quick browse through the Aries website and noticed that there are > quite a number of outdated pages. In some cases it was easy to update the > pages to more recent info (e.g. for the latest OSGi specs) but in other > cases I would propose the simply remove the outdated information. If > someone has the time to provide a replacement this can then be done later. > > Here's what I found: > > Documentation > * Programming Model: The Application model has since been superseded by the > standardised Subsystems. Proposal: remove Application bullets. +0. Would be good to keep it there but in a 'superceded' section. > * Pointers to OSGi specs: I updated these to point to R5 (was 4.2). +1 to keeping this up to date. > * Javadoc: this incomplete lists of modules points at old versions (0.3). I > would propose to delete this page as this info is available in the > published javadoc maven artefacts. +1 > > Downloads > * This page was last updated for the 1.0.0 release train and I wonder > whether we need it. All this info is available in Maven Central, can we not > simply remove it? -1 Like Dan says, our releases must be available from www.apache.org/dist and having a list of the releases is the best way of getting to them. > * Release notes. Since we are now supporting modular releases, do central > release notes make sense? I would simply remove this page. +1. Each release should get a set of release notes in JIRA. It would be nice to have this linked from the main downloads page. > * Archived releases - again, can we simply leverage Maven central for this? -1 Like Dan say. > > Community > * Aries group blog - hasn't been active since 2010. Should we remove this > link from the menu? +0 > > I don't really have the time to completely polish up the website but I > would be happy to make the above changes to ensure that the obsolete info > is gone. > > Thoughts anyone? > Cheers, > > David
