Hi Frank, On Jan 16, 2008 12:05 PM, Frank Mau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I'm working for over 10 years in the web-application area for the > Sun-developers of OpenOffice.org and StarOffice/StarSuite. My latest > changes for OpenOffice.org are tagging some native-language > download-pages to give everyone in the community the possibility to get > unified download-statistics (see > http://tools.services.openoffice.org/dashboard/).
Didn't new about those pages before. The charts have "confidential" written all over, that remark should probably be removed.. > In this area I see the problem for our customers to get in an easy way a > OpenOffice.org download. Following requirements I've noticed: > > - one click solution (if possible) is the goal > - considering language and platform (Linux RPM/DEB, language-code and > region-code problems) > - get a valid alternative link for other languages and platforms > (currently http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html which is > really not for end-users) > - different release times for localized OpenOffice.org suite > - different download-locations, some are available in Bouncer (OSUOSL) > -> e.g. en-US version, and others are controlled by the native-language > projects -> e.g. German version > > So in a few days I'll try to start to get a solution/draft for our > problem. If anyone can give me hints about additional things to take in > consideration, please let me know. Well, I for myself are in favor of adding alternative ways of distribution like using BitTorrent. And don't forget CD Compilations and the like. The current mirror system lacks severe issues. Every release, old versions get kicked, often enough versions for which there is no QA'd replacement yet and similar issues. Bouncer solves part of the problems, but unfortunately when using bouncer, there is a single point of failure, and bouncer did unfortunately fail quite often. On top of that, bouncer doesn't support ftp, which makes using resume or using download mangers in general harder (since http probably defaults to using the browser's download manager, and that often enough sucks, doesn't support resuming a download). As OOo is quite large to download, this aspect should not be forgotten. ciao Christian --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
