OK forget that. Either my browser was playing up or the publish I just
did for the July board report kicked it all into action.

On 10 July 2013 22:38, Jeremy Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>

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