Where Towny Advanced went

Mbaxter has informed me Towny Advanced requested to be taken off the site. This is unfortunate. I had heard a different story. No matter really, as the project is still very much alive. For those of you who do not know how to find them, PM me and I will get you in touch.

The plugin is great, the devs are great, it is still around and still active for those of you questioning.

Original thread, now closed, with MBaxter's explanation can be found here: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/where-did-towny-advanced-go.124926/#post-1518005

Thank you for the response and heads up MBaxter.

 

Moved to Bukkit Discussion.

 

Not what the author tells me.

 

[13:06:52] <@LlmDl> Necrodoom: its a weird situation
[13:07:13]<@LlmDl> first we got swept up in the 'no external download links except ci.url.com' thing
[13:07:31] <@LlmDl> then we were told our page did not have a plugin description
[13:07:42] <@LlmDl> at that point we were being jerked around
[13:07:52] <@LlmDl> and elgarl said just remove us

towny is still up and running:
http://towny.palmergames.com

 

Actually that is a very old, pre-DBO downloads list. Check out http://towny.palmergames.com for the latest release and dev builds. We'll have an archival list of past downloads soon.

 

fix yer IRC topic links >.<

 

Not a very weird situation.

It was brought to our attention that the Towny page wasn't following our guidelines on download links, which in recent months have been strengthened for user safety. This was no fault of theirs, as the project page existed before the rules were improved. As a result of the report, the Towny devs were asked to please update their project page in accordance with the download rules. We request this of authors when we notice their plugin pages are not matching the guidelines requirements.

Specifically, they were linking to external download sites, where we can't check the files being presented. This presents a user security risk as users may click links on a BukkitDev page promoted as primary downloads and end up with a bad plugin. Our guidelines require that only BukkitDev's file hosting system be presented as the source of releases.


Instead of doing this, ElgarL chose to delete latest file and the entire documentation of the plugin on BukkitDev and replace it with a message that started "Towny Advanced is no longer available on dev bukkit..." and instructions on how to find external downloads.

He was informed this was an invalid description page, as plugin pages need to contain the documentation, a rule he'd been happily following until now). He then requested the page be taken down, which I did for him.


If a developer wishes to avoid the free BukkitDev hosting platform, that is their choice. I did not force the page to be taken down, nor were the developers "jerked around." I requested they perform a small action (change links to BukkitDev, where they already had files hosted anyway) and they refused, instead trashing their own page and later requesting its removal.


There are two ways this conversation can go at this point, and both of them belong in better subforums.

1) discussion of the download links requirement, which belongs in the Feedback forum.
2) Towny support, which belongs in their thread