On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:37 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> wrote: > On 09/07/2011 10:22 AM, sebb wrote: >> Samples available from: >> >> http://people.apache.org/~sebb/subversion/ >> >> I added some dummy files to show what it would look like. > > I can see the utility of some sort of header bit that says, essentially: > > This is a mirror of the Apache Subversion distribution collection. For > more information about the files you see here, including: > > * how to download them from another mirror server which might be > geographically nearer to you, > * how to verify their integrity, > * how to build the Apache Subversion software they contain, and > * how to locate older versions thereof, > > please see http://subversion.apache.org/download/. > > But the rest of what you have in your example is information duplicated from > the above URL (and makes for a pretty noisy page overall). All we need to > do is give folks the minimal amount of information required to help them > find the rest of the information they might seek.
I just added text similar to this to w.a.o/dist/subversion. It may take a while to sync live (and folks should feel free to edit it). I hope all the bikeshedding hasn't scared anybody off; I think the original suggestion to have something a bit more complete is a valid one. -Hyrum -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com/
