Mikhail, Thanks for clarification. Then we keep both pages, and I index the snapshots page on the sitemap under For Developers, whereas Downloads is For Users. I'd also recommend adding a link from Downloads to Snapshots and vice versa - after all, the content is related.
Cheers, Nadya >-----Original Message----- >From: Mikhail Loenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:41 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [general][doc] snapshot download page > >Nadya, > >some time ago we agreed to have two places for snapshot downloading. >The first one is for users who come to download "a snapshot". > >The second one is for Harmony developers, where several recent snapshots >are available with their testing results. This is for tracking >regressions, choosing >a build for release, etc. > >The latest snapshot from the second place might be broken in this case >some previous snapshot will be offered for users in the first place. > >The first place currently is download page, the second one is snapshot >page. > >So, my understanding is download page should remain the same. > >Thanks, >Mikhail > > > >2007/6/26, Morozova, Nadezhda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi Mikhail, >> Can we now remove info from the Downloads page, section Snapshot Builds >> for Harmony 5.0, and point to your new Snapshots v5 page? What about >> sections Stable Builds and 6.0 on the Downloads page - what do we do >> with these? >> >> Cheers, >> Nadya >> >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Mikhail Loenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 2:36 PM >> >To: [email protected] >> >Subject: [general][doc] snapshot download page >> > >> >we now have two pages where people can download snapshots. >> > >> >the first page is where latest snapshots are available: >> >http://harmony.apache.org/downloads.html >> > >> >The second one where there is a short history of snapshots and their >> >testing >> >results, people have a choice of what to download and my choose not >> very >> >latest snapshot. >> >http://harmony.apache.org/snapshots_v5.html >> > >> >I think it's better not to offer just latest snapshot without any >> >alternative, >> >since people who tried a broken build may make wrong conclusions about >> >the project state. >> > >> >So I suggest that we remove 5.0 snapshots from downloads.html >> >and put a link there to snapshots_v5.html. We may also take >> >what we now have on downloads.html and put it in the same format to >> >snapshots_v5.html. >> > >> >Opinions? >> > >> >Thanks, >> >Mikhail >>
