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
>
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