Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C03633572 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:05:56 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25942-01-2 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:05:50 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.227]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC86B633265 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:04:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f6so2051757rvb.3 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:04:53 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.193.16 with SMTP id q16mr2844932rvf.215.1239645893131; Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:04:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49E370F5.5040107@agliodbs.com> References: <49DFE190.7050802@agliodbs.com> <937d27e10904110108h1de4bf4ev5ff1794299d1500f@mail.gmail.com> <49E29B12.1050107@agliodbs.com> <937d27e10904130213s36f2056dv8018dde798d8d232@mail.gmail.com> <49E370F5.5040107@agliodbs.com> Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:04:53 +0100 Message-ID: <937d27e10904131104k6ba9ad81h87bb448dbf115292@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Link locations for beta? From: Dave Page To: Josh Berkus Cc: PostgreSQL www Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200904/44 X-Sequence-Number: 16911 On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > In that case, I'd rather provide direct links in the announcement and on > /developer/beta. =A0There's no excuse to make people hunt for the beta in= stead > of making it obvious. 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. > HOWEVER, I would like a change to where the betas are posted (Marc, you > listening?). =A0Please put all betas at: > > =A0 =A0http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.4beta/ > =A0 =A0http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.3beta/win32/ > > That way, we won't have to keep updating the links every where for each b= eta > and RC release; the directories will remain the same. 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'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. --=20 Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com