So where does this leave us in moving the site over? Ralph
On Jun 21, 2012, at 12:51 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe we bypass the mirror system because the mirror system doesn't > support the jnlp protocol (handling the mime type).. > > Scott > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> wrote: > An icon is usually added to the user's start menu and/or desktop, which > launches javaws and uses the jnlp protocol, so they don't need to go back to > the link to get the benefit of autoupdates. > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> > wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> wrote: > > The benefit of webstart is updates are automatically downloaded and > > installed. The link actually tries to check jars each time you start the > > app and will update automatically if there are new ones. > > yes understood. > > Does the user (i am a webstart noob) always need to click on our > webpage to start the app? > And, do we actually bypass the mirror system here or am I wrong with > my assumption? Not sure if that is really relevant because I don't > know about the user base > > Cheers > Christian > > > > > Scott > > > > > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > I think the gotcha there had something to do with making sure the jnlp > >> > file mapping was correctly supported. It has been about eight years, but > >> > that is my recollection. > >> > > >> > That and the stupid maven template support would not allow us to use an > >> > image as the link (a 'launch' webstart graphical button as the link) > >> > >> > >> Is there something speaking against downloading an exe/dmg/zip via the > >> usual download system? > >> Or is webstart the killer feature for chainsaw? :-) > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> > Scott > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:46 AM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > >> > > >> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Ralph Goers > >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >>> I believe all the hard work on the logging site is completed however > >> >>> some of the sub projects are yet to be published. I would like to have > >> >>> infra convert loggingtest.apache.org to logging.apache.org but I don't > >> >>> want > >> >>> to get 404s on those sub projects. > >> >>> > >> >>> I looked at chainsaw and the download page will certainly break if I > >> >>> were to just copy the content. I'm not sure about the others. > >> >>> > >> >>> Any ideas? > >> >> > >> >> Just added log4cxx to loggingtest.a.o. Its using the download script > >> >> which generates a list of mirrors so no problem here. In addition I > >> >> completed the branding requirements for log4cxx so we can leave that > >> >> untouched for a while now. > >> >> > >> >> I am not sure on the chainsaw one. It seems to bypass the mirroring > >> >> system which is kind a bad. Instead we should change the site to use > >> >> the download script imho. Maybe Scott can comment here. > >> >> > >> >> That being said, the chainsaw site needs an appropriate footer. > >> >> Basically the maven.vm template could be used in chainsaw too. So we > >> >> have 2 tasks here, update to branding and use the mirror system. > >> >> > >> >> cheers > >> >> Christian > >> >> > >> >>> > >> >>> Ralph > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> -- > >> >> http://www.grobmeier.de > >> >> https://www.timeandbill.de > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> http://www.grobmeier.de > >> https://www.timeandbill.de > > > > > > > > -- > http://www.grobmeier.de > https://www.timeandbill.de > >
