Joshua Slive wrote:
http://httpd.apache.org/download.html+1. great idea, but I think the mirror sites should be mentioned more than only once. Perhaps an extra paragraph like the following would help:
I believe this is better than the current circumstances because it is clearer for the users, and it better enables us to direct people to the mirrors for the download and the main site for the signatures.
I've never particularly like the autoindex/README/HEADER thing. It is consfusing trying to figure out exactly what to download and there are notes scattered all over the place. And it works very poorly on the mirrors, since many of them are not configured in exactly the same was as www.apache.org.
I will be changing the links on httpd.apache.org to point to this page instead of directly at http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/. I'll wait a day for corrections and comments.
I believe this should go a long way towards reducing daedelus bandwidth usage for httpd downloads. It will, of course, do nothing for jakarta/xml/etc.
Joshua.
"Please do not download from www.apache.org. Please use a mirror site to help us save apache.org bandwidth. Go here to find your nearest mirror."[1]
Another Point are the official patches. IMO we should mention http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/patches/ together with a little note: "When we have patches to a minor bug or two, or features which we haven't yet included in a new release, we will put them in the patches subdirectory so people can get access to it before we roll another complete release."[1]
oh, btw the 2.0 paragraph praises 2.0.36 as the best available version instead of 2.0.43. The headline, the text and the check-for-patches-link are wrong.
cheers,
erik
[1] taken from http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/
