Marcus Lange wrote:
> Currently we get some reports about broken links where users get a 404 
> error message. But actually the link is not broken, the build is simply 
> not existing.

Well, I would consider it a broken link, it's a link to something that
does not exist.

I can understand this workaround of asking N-L teams to approve all
builds, and surely it would be a way not to confuse users too much. But
I find the approach flawed: the only sustainable solution would be that
download.openoffice.org knows what builds are available. Technical
limitations of the download system should not turn into a burden for N-L
teams.

I think it shouldn't be terribly hard for MirrorBrain to produce a
snippet of JavaScript, to be updated at every mirror synchronization,
that would simply provide an array of available builds. The current
download pages could just embed it and modify their current behavior
based on that knowledge. Wouldn't this be a better solution?

Regards,
  Andrea Pescetti - Italian N-L Project Lead.


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