Kay- please hop onto #asfinfra sometime soon so I can speak to you about the requirements for AOO regarding Apache mirrors- you CANNOT use the ordinary closer.cgi script for AOO!
It'd be easier to explain the situation to you over some dialog that is best accomplished on irc. Thx. >________________________________ > From: Kay Schenk <[email protected]> >To: ooo-dev <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:54 PM >Subject: [WWW] two questions about DL button on home page... > >Hi all-- > >Right now, when I click on "I want to download OpenOffice", I don't the >expanded green button I was getting last week, for example. I had made some >changes to this a week or so ago, but the changes that I incorporated, and >the green button itself were just fine after that. I think my current >experience may be due to a problem with getting the mirror link but I need >to confirm this in a bit. > >So, question #1. >I would like someone else to try this and let the list know what your >results are -- are you getting the expanded green button or being shuttled >to /download/index.html instead? > >Question #2. If you're not getting the DL button, or even if you are, how >strongly do you feel about having the expanding button, or would just a >jump to /download/index.html be just as good? > >I know there was a LOT of discussion when this design first emerged, but, >it would much much easier for changes in DL code -- Rob's proposal for >unification of yesterday for instance -- if we could just dump this >"internal" DL button on the home page. Yes, the buttons are the same to the >eye anyway on both the main index.html page and /download/index.html but >the html implementation is different, different enough that both these >areas need to be changed when changes are needed. Additionally, dumping the >"generated" button on the home page would allow us to standardize more >easily on incorporating the DL button -- the code used on >/download/index.html -- on other pages like the NL pages. > >Thanks for looking at this and responding. > >-- >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >MzK > >"Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you >And life has a funny way of helping you out >Helping you out." > -- "Ironic", Alanis Morissette > > >
