On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Smith schrieb: >> I noticed there are Orchestra artifacts on the myfaces website, but no >> links to them from the download page. Is this by design, or can I fix it ? > Yes it is deliberate. Orchestra has its own download page here: > http://myfaces.apache.org/orchestra/download.html > > You could possibly put a link from the myfaces generic download page to > that page if you want. But please don't add links to the released > binaries, as I don't want to have to update that page when I make an > Orchestra release. > > Having a single download page for all myfaces projects is dumb: > (a) it doesn't scale; as myfaces gains more projects the page gets hard > to use > (b) it means that when a project makes a release, the main download page > needs to be edited and the main site redeployed. This seems wrong. > > I think the single download page is really a leftover from the old days > where myfaces had just one lib to download: a JSF1.1 implementation. IMO > the website should be restructured so that all projects provide their > own download page, but I don't have the enthusiasm to actually do > anything about it :-)
Yes, I agree; the "main" page should just redirect the interested user to the *specific* download pages. Each sub-project is responsible for its download page, IMO. -Matthias > > Regards, > Simon > > -- > -- Emails in "mixed" posting style will be ignored > -- (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style) > > -- Matthias Wessendorf blog: http://matthiaswessendorf.wordpress.com/ sessions: http://www.slideshare.net/mwessendorf twitter: http://twitter.com/mwessendorf
