2014-10-23 8:20 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>:

> On 01/10/2014 David Nalley wrote:
>
>> Roberto and others from Sourceforge have set up a proof of concept for
>> the SF-based replacement for Apache Extras. You can take a look below.
>> Comments/Input welcome.
>> https://sourceforge.net/directory/vertical:Apache-Extras/
>>
>
> This was sent to the dev@community list, but seeing the very limited
> feedback I'm CCing the d...@openoffice.apache.org list too.
>
> I can say I managed to build OpenOffice trunk by replacing (and I'm not
> suggesting that anyone commits this, it is just a proof of concept!)
> -OOO_EXTRAS=http://ooo-extras.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/
> +OOO_EXTRAS=http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/
> and
> -    URL2 = $(OOO_EXTRAS)$(MD5)-$(name)
> +    URL2 = $(OOO_EXTRAS)$(MD5)-$(name)/download
> in external_deps.lst after deleting all third-party packages. So the
> archive seems complete and working.
>
> Honestly, with the very long filenames we use,
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/?source=directory
> is hardly readable, and this should definitely be improved is possible.
>

When we mirrored that apparently someone was using oooextras. Now it's free
to use, so we can easily replace
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/?source=directory
with
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras

Also our engineering team is finalizing few changes, hope to be able to
share a brand new Apache Extras landing page very soon.

Roberto



> For the rest, does anybody know the status of the OpenOffice section in
> Apache Extras?
> https://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/ooo-extras/downloads/list
> Didn't anybody complain so far simply because we haven't tried to upload
> new auxiliary libraries there after December 2013? Or someone tried and was
> hit by the new policy of Google Code as applied to Apache Extras? If we are
> to change, it would be good to know in what way the current solution is
> broken. My reading was that new uploads were forbidden, and indeed if I
> login at the above URL I don't see an "Upload file" function, but I used it
> only once in the past, so I'm not sure I'm looking at the right places.
>
> Regards,
>   Andrea.
>
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