I think there is going to be no good order for that page.  One thing that would 
make things easier is if there was some platform detection, and then there was 
a link at the top of the page for the detected platform.  If anyone did the 
work to add that support to our Plone download page, I would definitely support 
that change.

.hc

On Sep 30, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Scott R. Looney wrote:

> i think moving it to the bottom or renaming the source code link is a good 
> idea. maybe just rename the source link to 'Get PD Source Code For All 
> Platforms'. the gray colored 'Source tarball' can be missed if you're in a 
> hurry.
> 
> scott
> 
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Joel Matthys <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, I totally understand the political argument for placing src first. I 
> guess the debate comes down to how far we want to go to make things easier 
> for new users. To me, this seems like a move that may help avoid confusion 
> and frustration among new users, a very important demographic for the future 
> of the project, and it doesn't seem like it would be a violation of our FOSS 
> philosophy.
> 
> On the other hand, I *don't* support the idea of putting all of the "major" 
> platforms at the top. Start with BSD, by all means. For me, it's just the 
> phrase "all platforms" at the top of the page that caused the confusion.
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
> 
> On 09/30/2012 10:20 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 09/30/2012 01:36 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote:
> If the proposed change means that I can save five or more minutes then
> I fully support moving the source code download to the bottom of the
> page
> so which one should be first? bsd?
> 
> (personally i prefer src as first entry for political reasons; otoh, a
> system like on sourceforge, where the top-download is determined based
> on the client's OS might be most helpful; however, i don't know how to
> implement that in the current framework)
> 
> fmsar
> IOhannes
> 
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