Am 12/06/2012 04:00 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
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.
No problem, no need to wait for you. As soon as publishing is working
again I can delete the respective stuff for the webpages.
If linking is clearly against the ASF policy then it will be deleted.
And that's it.
Marcus
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
