[Opensim-dev] New language for Downloads Page

[Impalah]

GREAT (uppercased) idea but...

Even including warnings like:

- "use at your own risk".
- "if you use trunk in a production environment and it crashes, you are the
asshole".
- "moron restricted area".
- "RTFM"
- or simply "Read".

there will be problems. C'est la vie.

Murphy's law: "It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are
so ingenious".


2009/4/3 Stefan Andersson <stefan at tribalmedia.se>

>  I added an 'older versions archive' paragraph too, just to push trunk even
> lower down the page.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Andersson
> Tribal Media AB
>
>
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:46:44 -0400
> > From: sdague at gmail.com
> > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de; opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> > Subject: [Opensim-dev] New language for Downloads Page
> >
> > A lot of what transpired was because it was apparently not clear enough
> > about not using trunk. So that there isn't such confusion in the
> > future, I've removed the direct SVN link off the front page, and moved
> > the trunk links to this section of the Downloads page
> > (http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Download) :
> >
> > Experimental Upstream Code
> >
> > There Be Dragons Beyond This Point
> >
> > If you are truly feeling dangerous, adventurous, or want to help us test
> > the next version of OpenSim you are welcome to grab the latest unstable
> > code out of our subversion trunk. Any warnings previous expressed about
> > the alpha nature of the code go double or triple if you are running
> > directly off of trunk. Never, ever, ever, never run this in production
> > environments, it is not suitable for that unless you are very familiar
> > with the source code, and can hot fix any piece of it (that probably
> > means you are an OpenSim core member). Feedback and testing on the
> > unstable tree is appreciated, as that helps us make the next release
> > better. If this scares you from using trunk, that was intended.
> >
> > If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.
> >
> > * Latest Subversion revision version (bleeding edge)
> > ...
> >
> >
> > I replicate this here, because there are plenty of people that already
> > have a trunk tree, hopefully they'll get this message here if not via
> > the website.
> >
> > I'd also ask a favor from our users, if you find links to SVN anywhere
> > else in the wiki, please remove them, and just link in the Downloads
> > page. If anyone in IRC asks you how to get source, please don't give
> > them a direct svn command, please send them to that page. Everyone
> > getting svn trunk needs to read that paragraph, and really internalize
> it.
> >
> > Apologies to people for which this makes it a couple more steps to get
> > code who understand trunk, and continue to be incredible testers for
> > this incredible project.
> >
> > Thanks folks,
> >
> > -Sean
> >
> > --
> > Sean Dague / Neas Bade
> > sdague at gmail.com
> > http://dague.net
> >
> >
>
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