On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: > 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. >
I'm hoping this doesn't need to be discussed for a week. But I'm on vacation this week, and the CMS is still not updated to reflect the SVN move, so in practice it might take a week for this change to be made. -Rob > 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
