Re: Download links for source packages - where are they?

2013-06-26 Thread sebb
On 26 June 2013 02:48, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 June 2013 10:48, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: The point is that the ASF release source, and it must be provided for download via the ASF mirrors. See: http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#host-GA If you don't point

Re: Download links for source packages - where are they?

2013-06-26 Thread Barrie Treloar
On 26 June 2013 18:44, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: Howewer the ASF releases source. If you don't provide a download link to the source how are users supposed to find it? I agree that most people are not going to want to download the original source. But that does not mean it should be

Re: Download links for source packages - where are they?

2013-06-26 Thread Stephen Connolly
On Wednesday, 26 June 2013, Barrie Treloar wrote: On 26 June 2013 18:44, sebb seb...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: Howewer the ASF releases source. If you don't provide a download link to the source how are users supposed to find it? I agree that most people are not going to want to

Download links for source packages - where are they?

2013-06-25 Thread sebb
I could not find any download links for Maven source packages. As the ASF primary purpose is to release source, and that must be released via the mirror system, there ought to be download pages with links to the source package, sigs, hashes and KEYS file. Yes, there are source packages for some

Re: Download links for source packages - where are they?

2013-06-25 Thread Olivier Lamy
2013/6/26 sebb seb...@gmail.com: I could not find any download links for Maven source packages. As the ASF primary purpose is to release source, and that must be released via the mirror system, there ought to be download pages with links to the source package, sigs, hashes and KEYS file.

Re: Download links for source packages - where are they?

2013-06-25 Thread Barrie Treloar
On 26 June 2013 09:47, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: I could not find any download links for Maven source packages. As the ASF primary purpose is to release source, and that must be released via the mirror system, there ought to be download pages with links to the source package, sigs, hashes

Re: Download links for source packages - where are they?

2013-06-25 Thread sebb
On 26 June 2013 02:14, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 June 2013 09:47, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: I could not find any download links for Maven source packages. As the ASF primary purpose is to release source, and that must be released via the mirror system, there ought to

Re: Download links for source packages - where are they?

2013-06-25 Thread Olivier Lamy
funny discussion which come back around every 3years :-) 2013/6/26 sebb seb...@gmail.com: On 26 June 2013 02:14, Barrie Treloar baerr...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 June 2013 09:47, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: I could not find any download links for Maven source packages. As the ASF primary

Re: Download links for source packages - where are they?

2013-06-25 Thread Barrie Treloar
On 26 June 2013 10:48, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote: The point is that the ASF release source, and it must be provided for download via the ASF mirrors. See: http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html#host-GA If you don't point users to the source, I don't see how you can claim it has been