That's a good point, and might entail a rewording, if we're gonna keep this
in. (And ultimately, I think this is Joe's call, as he's taken point.)

How about:

"In addition to the official source releases, the community has also
provided a number of convenience builds."

Or in the future tense (depending on Wido's turn-around):

"In addition to the official source releases, the community will also
provide a number of convenience builds."

Perhaps even list the platforms we're targeting up front.

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:38 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote:

> >> > In addition to the official source code release, the project has also
> >> > made convenience binaries available on the Apache CloudStack download
> >> > page.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Above para is not needed.
> >
> > I disagree, strongly.
> >
> > We supply the convenience binaries for a reason. That's because quite a
> > few users won't want to compile from source - we should make sure it's
> > obvious that we do supply binaries, even though source is the official
> > release.
> >
>
> Who is the we?
> The project is not shipping any binaries.
>
> Wido, acting as an individual, is shipping binaries. The downloads
> page may link to Wido's repos, but they are not project provided.
>
> --David
>



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