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":

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> 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
> > >
> >
>

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