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From: Roberto Galoppini [mailto:roberto.galopp...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 05:57
To: dev
Cc: d...@community.apache.org
Subject: Re: Apache Extras PoC

2014-10-23 8:20 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>:
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> Honestly, with the very long filenames we use,
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/?source=directory
> is hardly readable, and this should definitely be improved is possible.
>

When we mirrored that apparently someone was using oooextras. Now it's free
to use, so we can easily replace
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/?source=directory
with
http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras

<orcnote>
    I think the observation about long file names has to do with 
    these, e.g.,

    d6eef4b4cacb2183f2bf265a5a03a354-boost_1_55_0.tar.bz2

    which make the page unreadable because the CSS forces the Name
    column to be too narrow to see the full names.  (The mouse-over
    provides them, and so does the information pop-down,
    but that is no help in scanning the list.)

    Also, the "Looking for the latest version?" message makes no
    Sense on the OOO Extras page.

    The names are not something SourceForge can do anything about.
    So long as these are meant to be fetched by scripts running
    in builds, this is the way it is going to be.  Those are the
    names used in the matching and fetching of ex.

    [I can appreciate why these are unacceptable usage of the
    Google Code and GitHub project services.  These are not
    development projects, just storage for build-used bundles
    for external dependencies.  It also means serving ads is
    not accomplishing much here.  Removing the sidebar for ads
    would also allow the name column to be wider.

    These don't seem to be "Extras" the way that was originally
    conceived, but the name is probably unimportant here.]
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