[Developers] Physical location of user manuals

[Hans J. Skaug]

Thanks Arni,

You give many good reasons for keeping things as the are.
Please forget my request.

Hans

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arni Magnusson [mailto:arnima at hafro.is] 
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 2:52 PM
> To: Hans J. Skaug
> Cc: developers at admb-project.org
> Subject: Re: Physical location of user manuals
> 
> So far, the division has been something like this:
> 
> 
> * http://code.google.com/p/admb-project/downloads/list
> 
> Everything the general user needs. The program and user manuals on a 
> single organized page. We take a deep breath before submitting a new 
> release. Things should work and are fully supported by the ADMB 
> Development Team.
> 
> 
> * http://admb-project.org/
> 
> Everything else. Tons of stuff in a deeply nested tree. We 
> put stuff here 
> all the time, delete and shuffle around. Things may not work, 
> and are in 
> many cases irrelevant for the general user.
> 
> 
> I think it has worked well to use separate sites for these 
> two purposes. 
> It's also worth noting that Google has mirrors around the world, so 
> downloads will be fast in remote places like South Africa and 
> Iceland. In 
> my case the download speed difference is 3x between a Swedish Google 
> mirror and our server in Santa Barbara.
> 
> The download counter is not only cool, but a useful 
> information about our 
> user base and what platforms are being used. (Who's that 
> mysterious user 
> downloading ADMB for Solaris? Was that you, Johnoel?)
> 
> 
> Arni
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Hans J. Skaug wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wanted to update the online manuals for ADMB-RE at:
> >
> > http://admb-project.org/documentation/manuals/admb-user-manuals
> >
> > but find that the actual files sit on google servers.
> >
> > Is there any reason that these files should not be on the 
> plone server?
> >
> > Hans
> >
>