Hi Yufei, It's not my intent to merge the Documentation and the Releases section together. If that was your interpretation, I apologize for not expressing myself clearly.
The intent is to rename the Releases section to "Downloads": [image: image.png] > By the way, did we ever discuss end of life policy on the mailing list? I do not recall a specific thread about it recently. No we haven't indeed, and I plan to start another discussion thread for that shortly. Thanks, Alex On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 10:30 PM Yufei Gu <[email protected]> wrote: > I think we should keep the versioned documentation page separate from the > release page. > > The docs index page(https://polaris.apache.org/docs/), provides > information > about which versions are currently active and which are end of life. I am > not sure this release status information belongs there. It might be better > to move release related details to the release page( > https://polaris.apache.org/downloads/). The current release page already > includes all download links as well as the release notes, so it seems like > a more natural place for that information. > > By the way, did we ever discuss end of life policy on the mailing list? I > do not recall a specific thread about it recently. > > Yufei > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 7:32 AM Dmitri Bourlatchkov <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Alex, > > > > "Downloads" sounds more intuitive to me too (wearing a user's hat). > > > > Cheers, > > Dmitri. > > > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 8:21 AM Alexandre Dutra <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > While working on some improvements to the web site [1], I briefly > > > suggested renaming the current "Releases" section to "Downloads" in > > > order to better reflect the contents of the section. > > > > > > Today I realized that the section was called "Downloads" before (!) > > > and was renamed "Releases" back in November [2]. > > > > > > But the reasons for the renaming are not clear. > > > > > > My arguments for reverting to "Downloads" are: > > > > > > - It perfectly describes the content of the section. > > > > > > - We have two sections that organize content by releases: > > > "Documentation" and the current "Releases" (ex-Downloads) section; > > > IOW, both have an equal claim to be called "Releases", which is why > > > none of them should take that title. > > > > > > Wdyt? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Alex > > > > > > [1]: https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/3902 > > > [2]: https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/2928 > > > > > >
