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Hoss Man commented on SOLR-1999:
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Developers are members of the general public -- any page a developer can see
can be seen by anybody else as well.
While i agree the previous link was bad, i quite frankly don't understand your
concern with the current situation....
HEADER.html doesn't even mention nightly builds -- it directs people interested
in "(unofficial, unreleased) source code for Solr" to [a wiki
page|http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HackingSolr] which makes it very clear it's
audience is developers, and which has info on how to check out the development
branches.
Admittedly that HackingSolr page does mention that we have a nightly build
system, so a non-developer might click the link about hacking on the source and
then get intersted in the nightly builds -- but it doesn't even link directly
to any builds -- instead it links to a [hudson
page|http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/view/Lucene/] where there is a list
of branches that have builds, and if you click on one of those you can get a
[branch build status
page|http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/view/Lucene/job/Solr-trunk/] and
from there you can scroll all the way to the bottom to click on [an artifacts
link|http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/view/Lucene/job/Solr-trunk/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/]
and from *there* you can actually click on a link to download something that
could be called a nightly build.
That seems like it fits the definition of "developer pages, not the pages
intended for all users."
I'm hard pressed to imagine a way to make it harder for non-developers to find
those builds while still linking to those hudson pages for "developers"
> Download HEADER should not have pointer to nightly builds
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>
> Key: SOLR-1999
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1999
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: http://www.apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/HEADER.html
> Reporter: Sebb
> Assignee: Hoss Man
>
> The file HEADER.html should not have a pointer to nightly builds.
> Nightly builds should be reserved for developers, and not advertised to the
> general public.
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