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Shawn Heisey commented on LUCENE-5631:
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I asked on #asfinfra whether a general solution with the mirror CGI would be a
good idea.
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11:39 <@gmcdonald> I do not think download.cgi is the place to put an archives
link no
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11:41 <@gmcdonald> elyograg: elsewhere on your website you should link to
downloads.cgi or the archives. The download.cgi picks a
mirror, archives do not live on mirrors, change your way of
thinking is my reply. If you insist on following up, talk to
the site-dev@ list instead of an INFRA ticket.
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I will follow up with the site-dev list to see if they have any interest in a
general solution. Regardless of what happens there, I do think we need to
improve our own project pages. When I have a moment, I will pull the site down
from svn and see if I can cook up a patch.
> Improve access to archived versions of Lucene and Solr
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> Key: LUCENE-5631
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5631
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: general/website
> Reporter: Shawn Heisey
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> When visiting the website to download Lucene or Solr, it is very difficult
> for people to locate where to download previous versions. The archive link
> does show up when you click the download link, but the page where it lives is
> replaced in less than a second by the CGI for picking a download mirror for
> the current release. There's nothing there for previous versions.
> At a minimum, we need a link to the download archive that's right below the
> main Download link. Something else I think we should do (which might
> actually be an INFRA issue, as this problem exists for other projects too)
> would be to have the "closer.cgi" page include a link to the archives.
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