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Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 13:02:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: Beta downloads
From: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>
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On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, Dave Page wrote:
>>
>> Hey Josh, all
>>
>> It's been pointed out to me that the 9.2 beta announcements point to
>> /download/ on the website to get the beta builds. At least for the
>> installers however, we don't link to the betas from the main download
>> pages (which is intentional), but from /download/snapshots/, which is
>> kinda hard to find. Any thoughts on how we can improve that? Should we
>> replace the text pointing to the snapshots page with something a
>> little more inclusive of beta/rc builds?
>
>
> Isn't that going to be wrong for all the other downloads as well, though?
> Should we have a generic text on the download page saying "get beta stuff
> over here", and then link to /developer/beta/, and then put the info there?

OK, following some further discussion with Magnus over coffee I've
pushed some changes to clarify these pages.


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