On 7 September 2011 16:15, Hyrum K Wright <hyrum.wri...@wandisco.com> wrote: > 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.
The header definitely helps, but for people that know how to check sigs, it would be helpful to have a link to the keys file in HEADER.html. > -Hyrum > > -- > > uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy > http://www.uberSVN.com/ >
