public inbox for [email protected]  

help / color / mirror / Atom feed

From: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Link locations for beta?
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:42:05 -0700
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>
	<[email protected]>

Dave,

> Right - which s exactly why I don't want you to publish links directly
> to a small handful of binaries and ignore the fact that the vast
> majority actually come from other places such as the yum repo, the EDB
> download server, ports, apt etc. etc.

Except it's not clear to the user from the page which of those have 
betas, and how to get those betas.  If we want to not have a full set of 
links in the e-mails, then we need to have explicit links & information 
on how to get every single beta binary somewhere else, like the 
developer/beta page.

In other words: if people have difficulty *finding* the betas, they 
won't test them.

> So for the sake of changing 2 characters in each announcement, we have
> to change the filing system to one which requires more and more effort
> for every user to locate the file they want? I don't think that makes
> much sense.

It was more about the web pages than the announcements.

> It's also likely to lead users to 404's more often as the website
> usually updates before all the mirrors do, so having a single page for
> all releases will potentially have invalid links on it for up to 24
> hours, whereas users will be far less likely to find them on an as-yet
> unadvertised page.

Ah, I didn't know about that issue.


-- 
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
www.pgexperts.com

view thread (13+ messages)

reply

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
  reply via email

  To: [email protected]
  Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
  Subject: Re: Link locations for beta?
  In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

This inbox is served by agora; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox