On Sunday 24 December 2006 00:32, Björn Mildh wrote: > Using the torrent dropdown menues is somehow confusing. In the > current setup any release candidates show up on top of stable release. > When this i written 2.1.0rc2 show up before 2.1.0, this can confuse > anybody not familiar with open source release conventions. > > In my opinion a better sollution would be to turn the menues up side > down and let people first choose system, then available language and > after that be presented the latest recomended release for that > combination. For legacy releases a link to a list could be enough? hmm, I agree with you, the final release should appear above the release candidats. Your other point, on reversing the process is interesting though... :)
> I also suggest an anouncement mailing list for torrents. The > distribution project seems to use only one list for any subject and > I'm really not interested in following all that discussion, I just > want to know when the stuff I seed gets updated. For now I use the > fall of numbers in connections to determine when it´s time to get new > files. There is an rss feed for all active torrents, furthermore you may use rsync to sync the torrents dir to your own server. http://borft.student.utwente.nl/~mike/oo/bt.rss Mike
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