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Shawn Heisey commented on LUCENE-5631:
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https://lucene.apache.org/core/downloads.html
https://lucene.apache.org/solr/downloads.html
Both of these links are prominent in the top nav of the main pages for
Lucene-Core & Solr, just to the right of the "news" tabs...
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This is not the first time I've been completely blind. I did not notice those
links. Apparently I'm not the only one, though. I've seen the question come
up in the IRC channel regularly. Now that they've been pointed out, I can
guide people in the right direction much easier than providing a link or
telling them that they just have to click fast. :)
bq. The project has taken several steps in the opposite direction,
intentionally making it harder to access releases (and docs) for older
versions, to encourage people to choose the most recent version.
This is understandable, but people who are explicitly looking for an older
version are asking about it. Hoss has pointed out where to go. I thought
those links weren't there, and it turns out that it was me, not the website.
> 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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