Doug Cutting wrote:
> Niall Pemberton wrote:
>> I would prefer what I say isn't distorted by selective editing.
>
> Sorry, that was not my intent.
>
>>> I'm not talking about the website in general. I'm talking specifically
>>> about publishing content primarily intended for inclusion in
>>> releases. Would
>>
>> Publication & release are two different things - thats the point.
>
> I don't see that yet. Can you tell me more about the difference? I
> use "publish", "distribute" and "release" more or less synonymously
> when referring to project content. Subversion contains only working
> drafts.
>
>>> we permit someone to mirror other files from trunk on the website?
>>> What's
>>
>> Yes and I bet every project provides a link to browse subversion which
>> itself is just another web site.
>
> Yes, but such links are meant to be confined to developer-oriented
> pages. We specifically do not encourage anyone but developers to use
> code in subversion. We provide extra diligence for releases, and that
> only makes sense if we don't otherwise distribute their content to the
> general public. Subversion is a service for our developers.
The ViewVC pages are publicly accessible. Therefore they are a service
for the whole world, not just for our developers; just like the project
web sites. I find myself quite often looking at sources and mainline
documentation for projects where I'm not a developer. Most of the time,
such resources are marked as unstable in some way, and not just in
Apache-hosted projects. That's as it should be.
So I'm not too clear on what your objections are.
* Do you object to publishing non-released documentation on the
project Web pages? Then you should start by cleaning up the
existing ASF TLPs; begin with HTTPD, for example.
* Do you object to publishing the link and not marking it as
"development" or "unstable" or whatever? AFAICS nobody suggested that.
-- Brane
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