Hi David, I was looking at the Aries home page and thought 'hang on didn't David update this to refer to R5 a while back'. I can see your changes on aries.staging.apache.org but not yet on aries.apache.org. Did you hit th publish link? I ask this, because I have had problems with the 'overview' directory recently and updates not getting published properly.
Cheers, Jeremy On 5 June 2013 11:10, David Bosschaert <[email protected]> wrote: > I've made the changes as agreed. I didn't touch the release pages. Removed > the javadoc, release notes pages and pointer to inactive Aries blog. > I've also updated the 'programming model' page to be a more comprehensive > (but high-level) list of technologies available in Aries: > http://aries.apache.org/documentation/ariesprogrammingmodel.html > > Anyone: feel free to make additional changes... > > Cheers, > > David > > On 4 June 2013 13:53, Jeremy Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 want to get rid of as much stuff that is blatantly out of date...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 >>
