True, but if somebody lands in http://archive.apache.org/dist/subversion/, they will see all the tarballs, and might naturally look for a README. Having found it, they would read the following text and be completely befuddled ("are you telling me I can't download a release from here? It's the archive!")
Anyway, it's really just a bikeshed, but those were my initial impressions of what users may encounter. -Hyrum On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > /download/ and /packages are the canonical location for "Where do > I download 1.6.x from?", so they ought to link to the archive. > > Hyrum K Wright wrote on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 14:05:59 -0500: >> Good idea. However, this file will be mirrored to the archive, and >> read there isn't technically correct, since the 1.6.x releases are >> hosted on archive.apache.org. >> >> -Hyrum >> >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> >> wrote: >> > I've added the following README to our dist/ directory on >> > people.apache.org: >> > >> > [[[ >> > For stable releases visit <http://subversion.apache.org/download/> >> > or <http://subversion.apache.org/packages>. >> > ]]] >> > >> > This is since currently only 1.7.0-alpha2 (but no 1.6.x or 1.5.x) is on >> > the Apache mirrors. >> > >
