Jack Repenning wrote on Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:09:15 -0700: > > On Aug 17, 2010, at 8:28 AM, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > > > I've handled this reversion and reworked the text there to make the point > > that I believe Jack (in his role as a Tigris administrator) was mostly > > trying to make: "Don't look for new stuff on this, our old site, and then > > complain to the Tigris admins when you can't find it." > > > > > > On 08/17/2010 12:08 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >> -1 on this change: it adds a link to openCollabNet to our tigris HOMEPAGE, > >> without any prior discussion. > >> > >> jrepenning_cn: please revert this asap, and avoid making changes to our > >> Website in this manner. > > > > Yes. Thanks for cleaning up my mess, Mike, and sorry for botching the > protocol. > > I guess I'm getting a little obsessive about this problem:
No problem. I appreciate that you had good intentions --- but jumping in and editing our web page for us (especially in an underdiscussed and unreviewable manner) wasn't, IMO, the best way to execute them. :-) > we're still seeing 20-40 thousand downloads per week of the stale Windows > binaries in the subversion.tigris.org "Documents and files" area, installers > no newer than 1.6.6, and often a lot older. For instance, in the last week > the top 10 downloads from this area are: > > | 4920 | Setup-Subversion-1.6.6.msi | > | 3168 | Setup-Subversion-1.6.0.msi | > | 3039 | svn-win32-1.6.6.zip | > | 2600 | svn-win32-1.5.6.zip | > | 2185 | svn-1.4.0-setup.exe | > | 2107 | svn-1.4.5-setup.exe | > | 1813 | svn-1.4.6-setup.exe | > | 1767 | Setup-Subversion-1.6.5.msi | > | 1056 | svn-win32-1.4.5.zip | > | 1016 | svn-win32-1.4.3.zip | > > "svn-1.4.0-setup.exe"? I'm sorry ... "svn-1.4.0-setup.exe"? Two thousand > people really need svn-1.4.0-setup.exe? It's particularly interesting that > the download numbers spike every time there's a new Subversion release--as, > of course, they should, except that I'm still talking about downloads of > older releases. I'm just not buying it. I think these people are confused, > and I'm trying to figure out how to help them find something more up-to-date. > > Not sure what we can do, other than add a big-red-letters "This is 1.4.0; you probably don't need it" warning on the download page itself... > > -==- > Jack Repenning > Chief Technology Officer > CollabNet, Inc. > 8000 Marina Boulevard, Suite 600 > Brisbane, California 94005 > office: +1 650.228.2562 > twitter: http://twitter.com/jrep > > > > > > >
