That's what I thought, too. Make it official. But the mailing lists have
the disadvantage that people who are not subscribed won't get the news.
A post on blog.openlaszlo.org would be more visible, and we could use
that to draw attention of IDE developers to the fact (maybe getting some
new contributors). As a quick fix I put some information on the
openlaszlo.org download page stating that the IDE cannot be downloaded
right now due to the archiving of the project. That's better than
sending people to the 404 page on eclipse.org.
In fact, Eclipse foundation has a page stating the IdeforLaszlo has been
archived. It's http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/laszlo/. So we should
point to that page instead of http://www.eclipse.org/laszlo/.
Andrew Chandler has the plugin on his company's homepage at
http://www.riftware.com/laszlodev/. We should put the plugins on the
openlaszlo.org site to have the download links working again. Didn't
want to point to Andy's page from the openlaszlo.org website.
The Eclipse foundation has a zip file with source code and the website
files on the archived projects page.
http://www.eclipse.org/technology/archived.php.
- raju
Jim Grandy wrote:
I think an official announcement, perhaps crafted from David's post to
laszlo-user, would be appropriate. It would be nice if the Eclipse
folks would put in a "project no longer hosted by Eclipse Foundation,
see this page on openlaszlo.org" page instead of a 404.
jim
On Jan 23, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Raju Bitter wrote:
Hi all,
Just checked the OpenLaszlo.org website.
http://www.eclipse.org/laszlo/ result in a 404. We should quickly
find a solution for that. I'd at least add a comment to the page
stating the project has been archived and point to download link. Do
you have any better ideas? How about an official announcement in the
OpenLaszlo blog?
- raju
