Is it Apache's concern that while people may be free to choose, ASF
server capacity is not free nor unlimited?
I doubt that OFBiz really puts a big load on the ASF infrastructure but
users are not supposed to be downloading from the SVN.
They are supposed to get downloads from local mirrors.
That may be the practical side of Apache's urging to get the releases
following their guidelines.
Ron
On 13/11/2014 3:13 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Le 13/11/2014 20:03, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
Does this solve ASF's issue about having users access the main servers?
I don't try to solve an issue, just to propose an alternative. It's a
free user choice, but with more elements
What do you put on the mirrors and how do you stop users from
accessing the development SVN which is ASF's concern?
Things stay as they are, it's only that we inform our users than
another way is possible and we give them enough elements of comparison
to choice, it's called freedom
Jacques
Ron
On 13/11/2014 1:55 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
For the licence free issues (an other related stuff) we could put a
disclaimer in the wiki page where all alternatives would be explained
Jacques
Le 13/11/2014 12:38, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :
In the past the ASF Board asked to the OFBiz PMC to fix the release
strategy of the project by providing officially voted release files
thru
the ASF mirrors: at that time we were pushing the users to get the
trunk.
Officially asking the user to use a release branch would be better
than the
trunk but would bring back similar concerns: an official vote is
required
to publish a product to the outside of the project in order to
guarantee
License free issues etc...
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Jacques Le Roux <
jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote:
Hi,
In a recent user ML
threadhttp://markmail.org/message/ivjocjr2ull7lwqe I
suggested we could propose our users to use a release branch strategy
rather than downloaded packages.
And that we could expose this way of doing in our download page,
or maybe
better with a link to an explaining page (in details) in the wiki.
I know it's not the recommended way of doing at the ASF. But we
all know
the OFBiz differences when compared with other TLPs which are
mostly libs,
and even mostly jars.
Most of us are actually using this way in their custom projects
and I have
a feeling it would not only help our users but also us to support
them.
What do you think?
Jacques
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