Ole Solberg wrote: > Kathey Marsden wrote: >> Jean T. Anderson wrote: >>> Kathey Marsden wrote: >>>> I think it would be good from the download page to point to the nightly >>>> builds that Ole posts for users to try out if they want to be daring: >>>> >>>> 10.2 - http://www.multinet.no/~solberg/public/Apache/Derby/builds/ >>>> 10.1 - http://www.multinet.no/~solberg/public/Apache/Derby-10.1/builds/ >>>> >>> It would be easy for http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html to >>> point to an index of nightly builds on >>> http://www.multinet.no/~solberg/public/ >>> >>> It's hard to automatically rebuild the web site nightly to point to each >>> specific new build (more details below). >>> >> >> These two lings are farily static I think: >> The 10.1 builds are at: >> >> http://www.multinet.no/~solberg/public/Apache/Derby-10.1/builds/ >> >> The trunk builds (10.2) are at: >> http://www.multinet.no/~solberg/public/Apache/Derby/builds/ >> >> and should be separately linked from the downloads page. >> We wouldn't need a new link until 10.2 branched. > > > I agree that we should just have links from the Derby downloads page to > "my" Derby/builds/ and Derby-10.1/builds/ pages. > When we get another branch we will have to do some manual updates both > to the Derby download page and "my" pages anyway.
infrequent updates to the derby web aren't any problem at all -- and any committer can make them, incidently. I'm looking at http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html, and here's the wording regarding builds: > # Builds are not official Apache releases. All releases require due process > and official approval. Distributions which are not officially blessed are > termed builds. > > * Nightly Builds are simply built from HEAD once a day. These are > intended to allow those without access to Apache code repositories to access > the latest code. Of course, these come with no guarantees concerning quality. How about this wording for a new "Nightly Builds" section on http://db.apache.org/derby/derby_downloads.html . Unofficial nightly builds are available from the links below: * 10.1 : http://www.multinet.no/~solberg/public/Apache/Derby-10.1/builds/ * development trunk: http://www.multinet.no/~solberg/public/Apache/Derby/builds/ Nightly builds are generated automatically and there is no guarantee that they will actually work! Production systems should *always* use the official release. tight enough? need additional wording? -jean
