C. Michael Pilato wrote on Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:11:20 -0400:
> On 10/27/2010 09:41 AM, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
> > 2. Let's think about users: they have different needs for Subversion:
> > just a client, client and server etc. There are different packages to
> > get Subversion to be installed and running. Some comes with just a zip
> > archive, others have some installation and configuration scripts.
> > That's what customers looking for.
> > 
> > 3. From my point of view, it is more important for users to explicitly
> > mark packages that requires registration and email for download.
> 
> Agreed.  There's no need for our package descriptions to be anemic to the
> point of uselessness.  Let the descriptions state exactly what folks will be
> getting (objectively -- this is not a playground for Marketing departments).
>  I also agree that it makes sense to note those downloads for which
> "Registration is required".  As a user, I'd want to know that stuff up
> front, too.
> 

+1 to this direction.

As the page stands now, the "professionally supported and certified" is
just lots of words that add nothing over "maintained by".  And
information-freeness is Bad.

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> C. Michael Pilato <[email protected]>
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