I see a lot of whining in this thread an not a lot of coding. If you
ask me, if Jeff, John or anyone in the projects feels that we need an
alternative to the javaplugins site, all they have to do is sit down
and put together a site. At that point we have have an open
discussion on the default link. We had a nice open discussion about
the default link a while back and concluded it the javaplugins site
was fine since there is only one site available, and when this state
changes, I expect the default to change.
Frankly, I think it is time to separate the talkers from the doers.
-dain
On Jun 14, 2006, at 4:11 PM, Jeff Genender wrote:
Hiram Chirino wrote:
Hi Jeff,
All I'm saying is I don't care if IBM puts up
http://www.ibm.com/wasce/plugins, I also don't care if you put up a
http://virtuas.com/geronimo/plugins site.
Now the default link issue is something else. Can we point it by
default at some Apache machines by default? I'm sure Aaron would not
mind, would you?
We do things like this all the time. Our maven builds are TOTALLY
dependent on non asf hardware. If ibiblio or codehaus go down, I
think we would have some serious issues trying to build geronino and
friends. And I may be wrong but I think Aaron's site was similar in
that it was just providing free hosting for artifacts. Or an I
wrong?
That is a great question. If Aaron's intention was to make an ibiblio
of sorts, this could have been discussed and it may have passed
muster.
The key missing component was the discussion ;-)
I am surely interested in intent...the goals...the barriers to
entry, or
lack thereof regarding this site.
Thanks,
Jeff
