Hi,
2012.03.24 21:29, drew rašė:
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 12:38 +0200, Rimas Kudelis wrote:
I have a few questions/comments for you:
1) will the legacy files be distributed to Apache mirrors, or will you
only distribute new releases and other files through them? In
particular, I'm not just wondering about English releases, but also
about tested and untested localized OOo builds, ISO images
(.../extended/iso/), dictionaries (.../contrib/dictionaries/) etc (in
fact, I'm mostly interested about what I listed here, since these are
the files I've had on my mirror). If most of these files will not end up
in the new mirror system, I guess it makes sense to keep our mirrors
around for another year or so.
Right - so I'm looking over the files you've got at
ftp://ftp.akl.lt/OpenOffice.org/extended/iso/en/
and
ftp://ftp.akl.lt/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/
for instance.
I do not know of any answer, beyond the generic - well first someone
needs to build, or at least offer to build, these things before really
worrying about the distribution. I suppose a growing list of
dictionaries can be assumed, but if I look at the Apache OpenOffice web
pages (as opposed to the old OO.o) it seems one would say to you... Hey
good news, you can save space cause there is only 13 languages now ..as
I say that can only go up.
iso images - I don't think there has been any real discussion yet, in
any serious way.
Hm, I was specifically asking about the legacy files. No building is
needed here, just a plain copy. BTW
However, as you can see from the dates, at least the dictionaries are
really old. They are probably even outdated in their form (I think the
newer versions of OO support .oxt format for dictionary packages,
right?). Perhaps starting from scratch (in terms of what's mirrored) is
the best approach here, but I just want a clear statement.
By the way, where can I see the list of languages that AOOO will
support, and why are there only 13? IIRC, in the Sun days, the
localizers had to sign the JCAs too, so it's not the licensing issue, is it?
2) What will happen once Apache makes its first AOO release? Will the
links to non-apache releases (at
http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html) be kept or removed? Also,
just out of curiosity, what platforms and languages will AOO provide
official binaries for?
Maintaining a list of Links to external sites is a big jump down in
scale, as far as actual work needed IMO, and I start with the assumption
that someone (of course someone has to show up, always) will put effort
into keeping them up to date. As far as contacting every site listed,
chatting with them about Aoo name change (looking just now OO.o is gone
from a few already..some of the linked sites are also gone :-.) any way
by know you have realized that again only honest answer I could give for
now is..don't know for sure, hope they will be maintained.
I wasn't thinking about links to external sites. What I'm wondering is
whether or not Apache plans to copy legacy releases to the "new" mirror
system.
3) it seems that the university where our mirror is located already has
an Apache mirror (http://apache.mirror.vu.lt/apache/). I guess it
doesn't make much sense for me to create another one. On the other hand,
does Apache support partial mirrors? If so, I would probably choose to
keep mirroring Apache OpenOffice. However, your "How to become a mirror"
page says you require the mirror to use Apache HTTPD. Our mirror uses
Cherokee (because its directory listing is prettier and I think because
it's also less RAM-hungry), would that be a problem?
4) If I click on "More OpenOffice.org News..." link on openoffice.org
home page, it takes me to http://ooo-site.apache.org/news/. It looks
like ooo-site.apache.org is the default vhost name of the website. Not
sure that's intended, cause it would at least look much better if it
were the other way.
Including the infra ml in CC for the last couple :)
Thanks,
Rimas
