RE: Re: Linux & xAP

[Kevin Hawkins]

Hi Julf,

I have to say from a new visitors perspective the overall picture is
not very clear. Perhaps the core xAP enthusiasts are so involved and also
'aware' of what is happening that we have overlooked the information
resources for newer visitors to the site. It is a very constructive and
helpful comment that you make and others must experience it too.

One of our issues has been that all the applications really link off
about half a dozen individual sites and the preference has been for people
to maintain their own site and just link to this from the xAP portal - the
three links that you mention actually provide access to some 100 plus
downloads I would guess. It is unfortunate that Patricks site has been down
but it is up and running currently.

Let's have a think about this and see how we can improve things as
there really is an awful lot of work happening on xAP currently that is not
as visible as we would like.

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Helsingius [mailto:<a
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> Subject: Re: [xap_automation] Re: Linux &amp; xAP
>
> At 12:54 27/02/2004 +0000, Stuart Booth wrote:
>
> >Any thoughts on the specific problem here? Where did you
> start looking?
> >I know I've got to populate the xAP Downloads section on
> >www.xapautomation.org with more details, but I figured
> I'd do that for
> >each new release/update, but I've not done much of that lately!
>
> I appreciate the effort - and unfortunately we all only
> seem to have
> 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week.
>
> Looking at www.xapautomation.com, the "Applications"
> section contains only 3 links, while there seem to be much
> more applications, and "Downloads/Developer Tools" doesn't
> contain any links.
> The "The Specification" section also doesn't have anything
> to download, it only has the spec in in-line form, not
> very handy to use.
>
> I feel really bad about criticizing the site that is after
> all a volunteer effort and a great project, but I'm also
> approaching it as someone who is developing a linux-based
> HA system, and trying to decide about basing the
> over-network protocol on xAP or not.
>
> Julf
>
>