On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > On 2012-05-14, at 12:47 , Kay Schenk wrote: > >> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:08 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I found so many invalid links(Dead links)or not open office software >>> related. >>>> Because this page not update for years >>>> http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/cdrom/ >>>> >>> >>> This page has repeatedly been the source of confusion and concern. >>> >> >> FWIW -- I de-linked the CDROM info from the current download page before we >> went live. The old distribution info, of course, continued to live on...so >> this was needed. >> >> I started, rather feebly, a new page yesterday that I thought might be a >> catch all for all manners of third party distributions --CDROM, other >> builds not by Apache. That would tie in or actually be replaced by this new >> page you started. yeah, we need to work on this, hopefully soon, to get >> more options out there. >> >> This new page is good until we determine HOW we even want to "verify" >> what's being distributed by these methods. > > What would "verify" mean? When I set up the CDROM project and distribution > category, the verification was simple: the binaries and source (if that was > what they wanted to deliver, too; a link would have worked, and did, usually) > had to come from one of OOo's mirrors, and we (Alex, at that point) pointed > them to those. (That was the mirrors list I set up but which was then later > maintained by several, including Florian E.) > > Why not do the same? It must come from an AOO distribution mirror. We simply > trust those who claim that that is how they obtained the binaries. As to what > is distributed on CDROM (or DVD): what they want, in addition to a legitimate > binary. And it need not be, of course, in English. >
The prior discussion on this was last week, in a thread called "Who is Page Maintainer Now? http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/cdrom/"; -Rob
