See below for reports and issues with the download links and pages. I'm aware that github issues would be the "right" way to resolve this, but we're getting a *lot* of reports about broken download links. It ought to be addressed systematically rather than piecemeal.
Begin forwarded message: > From: Laura Creighton <[email protected]> > Subject: Our download pages are in abysmal shape. > Date: 22 August 2014 13:19:56 EEST > To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] > > I am answering mail to [email protected] > I just replied to this. > > In a message of Fri, 22 Aug 2014 21:03:21 +1200, Will Walters writes: >> Hello >> >> Can you tell me why I am unable to download windows version of Python >> please. Hitting the yellow download button will not work. Are you upgrading >> your website at the moment? >> >> Cheers! >> >> Will. > > Will Walters is correct, the yellow button doesn't work. > > However, in researching his problem I have discovered that we are > now a great candiate for poorest website of the year, from a usability > standpoint. > > Many links do not work. > > We have a parallel structure > > https://www.python.org/downloads/release/lots of files > https://www.python.org/download/releases/lots of files > > which have different naming conventions for python releases. > > All over the python.org site are links to one place or the other, > and they cross reference themselves, too > > I am finding the downloads/release files to be useful. The other set > of files (downloads/releases) contains the release announcment -- which > could be merged into the relevant downloads/release file -- but otherwise > doesn't have anything I find at all useful. > > There is also a menu bar all over the site which has a selection > 'Downloads'. Clicking on that selection there gets you a separate > set of 2 buttons, which (at least on my machine here) covers up the > two yellow buttons. Those separate buttons actually work, unlike the > yellow ones that don't but this whole drop down is a mistake -- > you either go to the new page with the yellow buttons or you don't > but you don't provide two competing ways to do the same thing just > because you mouse over the download secton on the menu bar. > > But whoever was paid to make this mess really needs to be told > to sit down and clean the whole thing up. What we have right now > is both broken and terribly confusing, and reflects very badly on us. > > Laura -- http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ May you do good and not evil May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others May you share freely, never taking more than you give. -- the sqlite blessing http://www.sqlite.org/different.html _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
