On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:37 AM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
> On 09/07/2011 10:22 AM, sebb wrote:
>> Samples available from:
>>
>> http://people.apache.org/~sebb/subversion/
>>
>> I added some dummy files to show what it would look like.
>
> I can see the utility of some sort of header bit that says, essentially:
>
> This is a mirror of the Apache Subversion distribution collection. For
> more information about the files you see here, including:
>
> * how to download them from another mirror server which might be
> geographically nearer to you,
> * how to verify their integrity,
> * how to build the Apache Subversion software they contain, and
> * how to locate older versions thereof,
>
> please see http://subversion.apache.org/download/.
>
> But the rest of what you have in your example is information duplicated from
> the above URL (and makes for a pretty noisy page overall). All we need to
> do is give folks the minimal amount of information required to help them
> find the rest of the information they might seek.
I just added text similar to this to w.a.o/dist/subversion. It may
take a while to sync live (and folks should feel free to edit it).
I hope all the bikeshedding hasn't scared anybody off; I think the
original suggestion to have something a bit more complete is a valid
one.
-Hyrum
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Received on 2011-09-07 17:15:33 CEST