On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > Am 12/06/2012 02:03 AM, schrieb Dave Fisher: > >> 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'm sure I've told here that the links could be enabled to point more people > to these dev builds. But cannot find this for the moment in the archives. > > Marcus
yes, I remember this as well and it wasn't too long ago -- maybe late Oct, early Nov. But, we forgot to read the fine print on Apache policy in this regard. :/ > > > > >> 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK “How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?” -- Anais Nin
