On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > So where does this leave us in moving the site over?
I think we could simply commit the chainsaw binary into the cms folders. But actually I believe infra will eat us if they ever find out we distribute binaries from the CMS folder. Therefore I would say we make up a regular download page and reference to the dmg and the zip only (dropping the jnlp) and use the mirroring system. Scott, its your domain- what do you say to that? Cheers Christian > > Ralph > > On Jun 21, 2012, at 12:51 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I believe we bypass the mirror system because the mirror system doesn't > support the jnlp protocol (handling the mime type).. > > Scott > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> An icon is usually added to the user's start menu and/or desktop, which >> launches javaws and uses the jnlp protocol, so they don't need to go back to >> the link to get the benefit of autoupdates. >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Christian Grobmeier >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > The benefit of webstart is updates are automatically downloaded and >>> > installed. The link actually tries to check jars each time you start >>> > the >>> > app and will update automatically if there are new ones. >>> >>> yes understood. >>> >>> Does the user (i am a webstart noob) always need to click on our >>> webpage to start the app? >>> And, do we actually bypass the mirror system here or am I wrong with >>> my assumption? Not sure if that is really relevant because I don't >>> know about the user base >>> >>> Cheers >>> Christian >>> >>> >>> >>> > Scott >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Christian Grobmeier >>> > <[email protected]> >>> > wrote: >>> >> >>> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Scott Deboy <[email protected]> >>> >> wrote: >>> >> > I think the gotcha there had something to do with making sure the >>> >> > jnlp >>> >> > file mapping was correctly supported. It has been about eight years, >>> >> > but >>> >> > that is my recollection. >>> >> > >>> >> > That and the stupid maven template support would not allow us to use >>> >> > an >>> >> > image as the link (a 'launch' webstart graphical button as the link) >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> Is there something speaking against downloading an exe/dmg/zip via the >>> >> usual download system? >>> >> Or is webstart the killer feature for chainsaw? :-) >>> >> >>> >> Cheers >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> > >>> >> > Scott >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:46 AM, Christian Grobmeier >>> >> > <[email protected]> >>> >> > wrote: >>> >> > >>> >> >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Ralph Goers >>> >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> >>> I believe all the hard work on the logging site is completed >>> >> >>> however >>> >> >>> some of the sub projects are yet to be published. I would like to >>> >> >>> have >>> >> >>> infra convert loggingtest.apache.org to logging.apache.org but I >>> >> >>> don't want >>> >> >>> to get 404s on those sub projects. >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> I looked at chainsaw and the download page will certainly break if >>> >> >>> I >>> >> >>> were to just copy the content. I'm not sure about the others. >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> Any ideas? >>> >> >> >>> >> >> Just added log4cxx to loggingtest.a.o. Its using the download >>> >> >> script >>> >> >> which generates a list of mirrors so no problem here. In addition I >>> >> >> completed the branding requirements for log4cxx so we can leave >>> >> >> that >>> >> >> untouched for a while now. >>> >> >> >>> >> >> I am not sure on the chainsaw one. It seems to bypass the mirroring >>> >> >> system which is kind a bad. Instead we should change the site to >>> >> >> use >>> >> >> the download script imho. Maybe Scott can comment here. >>> >> >> >>> >> >> That being said, the chainsaw site needs an appropriate footer. >>> >> >> Basically the maven.vm template could be used in chainsaw too. So >>> >> >> we >>> >> >> have 2 tasks here, update to branding and use the mirror system. >>> >> >> >>> >> >> cheers >>> >> >> Christian >>> >> >> >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> Ralph >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> >>> >> >> -- >>> >> >> http://www.grobmeier.de >>> >> >> https://www.timeandbill.de >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> http://www.grobmeier.de >>> >> https://www.timeandbill.de >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://www.grobmeier.de >>> https://www.timeandbill.de >> >> > -- http://www.grobmeier.de https://www.timeandbill.de
