On 7/20/12 3 :04PM, "Daniel Shahaf" <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>Can we document then that README.* will be ignored and recommend >README.html instead? (disclosure: svn already does the latter) I don't >think we can ask mirrors to change their IndexIgnore directives until we >fix them on the masters. > >sebb wrote on Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 19:49:34 +0100: >> On 20 July 2012 17:22, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On 20 July 2012 17:17, Carol Frampton <cfram...@adobe.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> On 7/20/12 12 :14PM, "sebb" <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>>On 20 July 2012 15:34, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: >> >>>> I don't see any mention of README in rsyncd.conf or the mirroring >> >>>> scripts, though.. ie, no reason for it not to sync over to www.a.o >>after >> >>>> the usual time frame >> >>> >> >>>It's possible for the file to be present but not visible in the index >> >>>page. >> >>>Try using the full URL. >> >> >> >> You're correct. >> >> http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex/4.8.0-incubating/README >>shows >> >> the contents of the file but >> >> http://www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex/4.8.0-incubating does not >>show >> >> the README file. >> >> >> > >> > Just noticed (by checking on minotaur) that there is a README file in >> > the zzz/ directory. >> > This also appears in mirrors - if you know the secret! >> >> I've done a test. >> >> There are 223 http mirrors currently. >> >> Of those, only 99 show the README file in the zzz directory. >> >> For example it is shown here: >> >> http://www.eng.lsu.edu/mirrors/apache/zzz/ >> >> The IndexIgnore [1] setting defaults to just '.' but it appears a lot >> of mirrors (and the ASF masters) suppress README* and HEADER*. >> >> The mirror configuration guide [2] does not mention IndexIgnore. >> It would probably be too much to ask mirrors to change now. >> >> So I guess we need to live with the status quo, which is that README* >> files likely won't be visible. >> Projects need to choose some other name, or use the fact that >> HEADER.html / README.html will be displayed as header / footer of the >> index pages. >> >> [1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_autoindex.html#indexignore >> [2] http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html#Configuration >> >> >> Carol >> >>
