On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Herbert Duerr <h...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 14.11.2014 01:04, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> On 11/13/2014 03:10 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> >>> On 13/11/2014 Michal Hriň wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>>> It is a update of external package :) >>>> >>> >>> And here is a problem, but it doesn't depend on you. Policy so far has >>> been: we download build-time dependencies from the Extensions site and >>> from Apache Extras. >>> >> >> Can we get a memory refresher on why we can't use the svn versions of >> these external sources directly? >> > > David Fisher wrote in [1] that he removed them because "fallback urls to > svn are now removed as per Infra policy". I guess the revision control > server that is so very critical to so many ASF projects should not be > impeded by the download of such large third-party tarballs. > > [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=r1377529 > > [...] >> It seems like the testing from the new SourceForge are is going pretty >> well... >> >> http://markmail.org/message/4p3klhqkkvszmwav >> >> Maybe time for some additional testing from: >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/ >> >> I'll make local changes and test with this as new OOO_EXTRAS area. >> >> Who would have rights to update these files on SF? >> > > The sourceforge ooextras.mirror project currently has only one > administrator [2]. > > [2] https://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor1/ > > Herbert Thanks for the info... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
