FWIW, I was able to get a response from the form last month. I was issued a new MSDN subscriber ID using which I could have downloaded Microsoft Visual Studio (and some other products, I think). I was interested in downloading an image of Windows to run in a VM, but the downloader is..... wait for it..... an exe file :-) Haven't gotten around to begging someone with a Windows OS to run that image downloader.....
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Sean Busbey <bus...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Some talk about the MSDN-for-committers program recently passed by on a > private > list. It's still active, it just changed homes within Microsoft. The > info should still be in the committer repo. If something is amiss > please let me know and I'll pipe up to the folks already plugged in to > confirming it's active. > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Chris Nauroth > <cnaur...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > It's very disappointing to see that vanish. I'm following up to see if I > > can learn more about what happened or if I can do anything to help > > reinstate it. > > > > --Chris Nauroth > > > > > > > > > > On 5/20/16, 6:11 AM, "Steve Loughran" <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > > > >> > >>> On 20 May 2016, at 10:40, Lars Francke <lars.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> Regarding lack of personal access to anything but Linux, I'll take > >>>>this as > >>>> an opportunity to remind everyone that ASF committers (not just > >>>>limited to > >>>> Hadoop committers) are entitled to a free MSDN license, which can get > >>>>you > >>>> a Windows VM for validating Windows issues and any patches that touch > >>>> cross-platform concerns, like the native code. Contributors who are > >>>>not > >>>> committers still might struggle to get access to Windows, but all of > us > >>>> reviewing and committing patches do have access. > >>>> > >>> > >>> Actually, from all I can tell this MSDN offer has been discontinued for > >>> now. All the information has been removed from the committers repo. Do > >>>you > >>> have any more up to date information on this? > >>> > >> > >> > >>That's interesting. > >> > >>I did an SVN update and it went away..looks like something happened on > >>April 26 > >> > >>No idea, though the svn log has a bit of detail > >> > >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: mapreduce-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > >>For additional commands, e-mail: mapreduce-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org > >> > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org > > > > > > -- > busbey > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: mapreduce-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: mapreduce-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org > >
