While a single page is necessary for the casual browser, why would a user
of Tomcat, who wants to download Tomcat 5, want to goto a list of many
other subprojects?

http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/binaries/maven-1.0.zip

seems to be far more of what a user would want to see. However, it should
also have the keys/signatures for that file. I'm pretty sure these aren't
mirrored, so should be easy to modify closer.cgi.

Then each subproject can manage a simple page with the lists of their
distributions.

As the actual download page will mention keys/signatures, the project-list
page merely has to mention that the keys/signatures can be found on the
download page.

My only grumble is with:

http://maven.apache.org/start/download.html

It doesn't indicate that the link goes to a mirror'd download page, but
suggests that clicking on said link will download. This means users will
right-click and do Save-As on some occasions. Sourceforge has a similar
problem.

Sorry for how long it took to reply,

Hen

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, robert burrell donkin wrote:

> i've created a document on the wiki
> (http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta/InfrastructureIssues/WebSite/
> DownloadPages). i'm happy for discussion to continue on this list but i
> thought that it might be useful to have a base document.
>
> comment encouraged :)
>
> - robert
>
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