From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Link locations for beta? |
Date: | 2009-04-13 18:04:53 |
Message-ID: | 937d27e10904131104k6ba9ad81h87bb448dbf115292@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> In that case, I'd rather provide direct links in the announcement and on
> /developer/beta. There's no excuse to make people hunt for the beta instead
> 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?). Please put all betas at:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.4beta/
> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.3beta/win32/
>
> That way, we won't have to keep updating the links every where for each beta
> 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.
--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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