Rob, Thanks for clearly singling out this critical issue from the other issues regarding developer snapshots.
On Dec 5, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > http://www.openoffice.org/download/ > > This has a section that promotes the download of pre-release binaries > to the general public. This is against ASF Release Policy, where it > says: > > "During the process of developing software and preparing a release, > various packages are made available to the developer community for > testing purposes. Do not include any links on the project website that > might encourage non-developers to download and use nightly builds, > snapshots, release candidates, or any other similar package. The only > people who are supposed to know about such packages are the people > following the dev list (or searching its archives) and thus aware of > the conditions placed on the package. If you find that the general > public are downloading such test packages, then remove them." > > http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#what > > We're in flagrant violation of this policy. The page in question, > http://www.openoffice.org/download/, is the single post popular page > on the website, more popular than the home page. It gets over 3 > million visits per month. > > Unless anyone can come up with contrary policy interpretation, for > example, from legal-discuss or the ASF Board, I'll go ahead and remove > that section from the webpage in one week. I did not notice that these links had been rewritten and reenabled. I purposefully hid these during the OOo migration and 3.4 release process. I completely agree that the links need to be removed ASAP. Has Infrastructure reenabled publish with the svn move? If so, I see no reason to wait a whole week. Also, please adjust http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html as well. As project developers we will need to inform people on an as needed basis about the CWiki page only during ML conversations on dev, qa and L10N mailing lists. Thanks & Regards, Dave
