On 04/26/2012 01:32 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote:
Am 04/26/2012 07:02 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Kay Schenk<kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
I've been working on a prototype of the DL button in the
/download/test area
given our discussions about split mirror setup for 3.4 etc. I have a few
more edits to do before sending out a notification about final review
(later today).
But...I have a few questions for this release.
* The DL scripts have a good amount of logic surrounding the
naming/download
of 3.2 and 3.1 releases-- the "old" naming schema. Since we won't be
providing "friendly" DL buttons for these anymore, is it safe to pull
this
stuff out?
* DL locations for Mac PPC and FreeBSD are as follows (excuse wrapping):
var MIRROR_MAC_PPC_URL =
"http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/macosppc/";;
var MIRROR_FREEBSD32_URL =
"http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/freebsdx86/";;
var MIRROR_FREEBSD64_URL =
"http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/freebsdx86-64/";;
Will this still be the case or will all versions be served from either
Apache or SourceForge? The DL logic needs to be changed if this
alternate
URL is not used.
I think the main download link should only provide links to official
AOO releases. We could have another section (maybe in other.html)
where we can point to third party binaries and ports. But we should
have a disclaimer making it clear that these packages are not official
releases.
I would also suggest to make this separate. But please not on the
"other.html" webpage. ;-)
It has already a hugh number of download links and much text that
explains many points.
I would do it with separate webpages. Like:
other.html = only for AOO 3.4 files
legacy.html = only for OOo 3.3.0 and older files
community.html = all other stuff
yes, this is what I was thinking as well...
BTW:
If someone has thought about to rename "other.html" to a better sounding
name. Please note that many other websites in the Internet refer to this
page when they want to tell the people where to download OOo - or at
least where to get install files for all platforms and languages.
I also agree that we should not inter-mix 3.3 and 3.4 downloads.
Yes, me too.
Another thing to consider is how we actually invoke the download.
Right now we simply link to the SF site. So after the download is
done the user is left sitting at SF. This is not ideal. I wonder
whether it would be better to load the SF page in a new page, via
target="_blank" and then refresh our download.html to contribute.html
so after the download is done, and the user closes the SF page, they
are back in the openoffice website with a "thanks for downloading"
messsage and followup info to engage the user in the community.
Good point. To show the contribution webpage after the download has
started is indeed valuable for our project.
Marcus
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