On 27/05/14 21:25, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Herbert Duerr wrote: >> The "localized" and "stable" folders only provide the old 3.2.x, 3.3.0 >> and 3.4.x releases, so getting more than 28000 weekly downloads there is >> an alarming signal. > > This could be our fault too. It seems that "localized" is mainly used to > serve these languages (using numbers from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/localized/ ): > pl 9500 > nb 3400 > da 2700 > es 2100 > > For Danish, the problem is surely coming from ourselves: we are not > listing 4.1.0 at http://www.openoffice.org/da/ (discussed at > http://markmail.org/message/ibhey3f7jt6b7db2 , I'll fix it now so we can > see if the number decreases). For other languages, we should check our > own site first!
Again a further example why unified pages with the same content are a good idea. Download links (wherever) should be generated out of one resource. And do we really need direct download links on localized pages? I believe not, we see the problem here. I know some people prefer direct links on their localized page but I think it doesn't scale and better is to redirect users to the official download page where normally the most recent version and language is downloaded automatically. And even the download page can be translated but the download logic should be always the same. Everything else is error prone and often unmaintained over time. Juergen > >> I'd like to clean up the "localized", "stable", "extended", "contrib" >> and "packages" top-level directories by either >> - removing them altogether >> - recreate a 3.4.1 folder and remove the others >> - recreate a 3.4.1 and an old-OOo folder and remove the others > > Breaking existing links is very bad. If people are getting these files, > we can't just remove them. I'd rather work on the causes (let's see what > Danish looks like in one week) and we can add a README.txt or something > if you believe people are browsing the SourceForge file tree and getting > lost; but files are there, they are being heavily downloaded and > removing there immediately would simply cause confusion. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
