Re: [RFC] Package download pages

From: Henrik Nordström <henrik_at_henriknordstrom.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:44:37 +0100

mån 2012-01-23 klockan 11:42 +1300 skrev Amos Jeffries:
> The current website layout for Versions/ and Download/ is a little
> confusing and I would like to combine the two into a simpler form.
>
> The main problem is the download links and section called Download/ is
> just documentation about downloading and mirrors. The actual download
> files themselves are under Versions/. The link between the two is an
> easily overlooked link on Download/ and there are several click layers
> to wade through before any actual package link becomes available.
>
> I would like to make the Download/ index page a redirect to Versions/
> index page, move the Download/ text to an intro for the Versions/ page,
> and add some automated links from the Versions/ page straight to the
> latest tarballs.
> Eventually I would like to link to the OS distro package sources of
> the stale release(s) from here too and get rid of all those "where do I
> find binaries for distro X" FAQs.
>
>
> Comments? Other ideas?

+1.

While at it you may also want to look into getting rid of the duplicate
release information in /Versions/ and /Versions/<branch>/ which we tend
to forget to update in every release.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Sun Jan 22 2012 - 23:45:08 MST

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