On 23.01.2012 12:44, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> 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.
This release details are now automated by the mk-static.sh systems. All
we need to do is update the Versions/index.dyn page when new series are
created or shifted between beta/stable/deprecated status.
Amos
Received on Mon Jan 23 2012 - 02:51:52 MST
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