On 12 March 2015 at 23:08, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) < ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> This has nothing to do with the AOO downloads, it only affects > apache-extras. As far as I'm aware AOO downloads have been fine for a very > long time - has that changed? > No it has not changed, but maybe I did not use the right words. Our primary binaries (the executable) for "real" endusers are downloaded from SF, but we have plenty of stuff on apache_extra (ooo extras) which can be and are downloaded. Currently most of ooo_extras are targeted at developers and not end-users, and especially that part of our community is something we do not want to hurt. rgds jan i. > Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. > A subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation > > -----Original Message----- > From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 3:06 PM > To: dev@community.apache.org > Subject: Re: Google Code shutting down Jan 2016 > > On 12 March 2015 at 22:55, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On 12/03/2015 Roger and Beth Whitcomb wrote: > > > >> I was involved at one point on behalf of Pivot (where we have several > >> projects), and Andrea Pescetti on behalf of Open Office was also > >> involved (since they have a bunch of stuff there). But things have > >> gone quiet for about 2 months. There was a second prototype that > >> looked pretty good (to us). But, I don't know the state of things now. > >> > > > > It was not me personally, but the OpenOffice project as a whole. We > > are now using http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/ > > in the OpenOffice trunk and it works for us (our needs are limited to > > storage of some optional build dependencies; for the record, Github > won't allow that). > > > > http://sourceforge.net/directory/apache_extras is the link to the > > latest proposal for an ASF-wide replacement. There was little interest > > all times the matter was discussed on this list, so OpenOffice just > > moved on and started using the SourceForge space. > > > > I support Andrea strongly here, AOO need a decision on this, apache_extras > is an essential part of our downloads, and not just "extras". > > Personally I think the SF solution is what we as ASF need, unless Infra > prefer to host it on our own hardware, and do not have a problem with the > download bandwidth. > > Can I please politely ask the people, who says (or others say) they are > working on this theme, to come to a decision. This seems to be a matter > where a single person could make the decision but we still continue > discussing. > > > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > >
