Re: putting the alphas on the website downloads section

2019-11-06 Thread Jon Haddad
Seems reasonable. I can set up that wiki page and update the website at the end of the week, unless someone else gets to it first. Maybe I should know this already - is there a nightly build that's already created we could also point people to? Jon On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 2:59 PM Michael

Re: putting the alphas on the website downloads section

2019-11-04 Thread Michael Shuler
wiki != project website I think this sounds completely reasonable for a wiki page, and anyone can edit easily. Good suggestion. Michael On 11/4/19 3:18 PM, Joshua McKenzie wrote: Is there an opportunity to consider a separate "upcoming release testing" type page with downloads to alpha

Re: putting the alphas on the website downloads section

2019-11-04 Thread Joshua McKenzie
Is there an opportunity to consider a separate "upcoming release testing" type page with downloads to alpha releases? Sounds like, as per letter of the law, we wouldn't that on the official project page but getting something going where we can have project-wide "test out this alpha" or where

Re: putting the alphas on the website downloads section

2019-11-04 Thread Michael Shuler
I will also add that I did send the user@ list 4.0-alpha release notes, along with dev@, and also added to the @cassandra tweet last week. I thought those were acceptable to get a little wider audience, but didn't want to link from downloads page, since this is explicit. Michael On 11/4/19

Re: putting the alphas on the website downloads section

2019-11-04 Thread Michael Shuler
-1 (I looked into this when we released 4.0-alpha1) "During the process of developing software and preparing a release, various packages are made available to the developer community for testing purposes. Do not include any links on the project website that might encourage non-developers to

Re: putting the alphas on the website downloads section

2019-11-04 Thread Dinesh Joshi
I think this is a good idea. I am +1 on making this more discoverable on our website. Please add instructions to report bugs and give us feedback around it. Dinesh > On Nov 4, 2019, at 10:53 AM, Jon Haddad wrote: > > I noticed we don't currently list the alpha in the downloads section. >

putting the alphas on the website downloads section

2019-11-04 Thread Jon Haddad
I noticed we don't currently list the alpha in the downloads section. Anyone object if I add the relevant information after the "Older supported releases" section in the downloads page? I'd make it clear that this is alpha and non-production release, and we're soliciting feedback.