Re: Is there value in keeping download links for old releases?

2007-08-30 Thread ant elder
The Eclipse STP project isn't using M2 because they accidentally downloaded the wrong release, its what was current at the time and they haven't migrated to a newer release yet. I think its good to keep old releases to (1) show the release history, and (2) have historical downloads available for

Re: Is there value in keeping download links for old releases?

2007-08-30 Thread kelvin goodson
I agree with ant. I had an issue recently with SDO relying on a back-level release that had been removed.So I think the thing to do is to help new users avoid the trip hazard of inadvertently downloading a back level release by structuring our web pages helpfully. Kelvin. On 30/08/2007, ant

Re: Is there value in keeping download links for old releases?

2007-08-30 Thread Jean-Sebastien Delfino
ant elder wrote: The Eclipse STP project isn't using M2 because they accidentally downloaded the wrong release, its what was current at the time and they haven't migrated to a newer release yet. I think its good to keep old releases to (1) show the release history, and (2) have historical

Re: Is there value in keeping download links for old releases?

2007-08-30 Thread haleh mahbod
Thank you for your input. I'll work on making the current releases more visible and leave the old ones as is. On 8/30/07, Jean-Sebastien Delfino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ant elder wrote: The Eclipse STP project isn't using M2 because they accidentally downloaded the wrong release, its what

Re: Is there value in keeping download links for old releases?

2007-08-29 Thread haleh mahbod
I'd like to bring this message back to life. A few users posted to the ML recently and asked about M2. Immediate response has been to use the latest since M2 is very old (IMHO makes sense). This email thread was suggesting to remove the download link of very old releases to avoid confusion. We

Re: Is there value in keeping download links for old releases?

2007-08-29 Thread Luciano Resende
A suggestion would be to have the most recent release, and the previous one, and then a link to archive that would point to the root folder of where our releases are stored. We could even just have the latest and the pointer to the archived releases. Thoughts ? On 8/29/07, haleh mahbod [EMAIL

Is there value in keeping download links for old releases?

2007-08-10 Thread haleh mahbod
Hi, The latest release for each subproject is the preferred release to download. Does it make sense to keep links to download for old releases on the download page? This can give a wrong impression that these are also OK to download. For example, for Java SCA there are still links to M1 and M2

Re: Is there value in keeping download links for old releases?

2007-08-10 Thread ant elder
On 8/10/07, haleh mahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The latest release for each subproject is the preferred release to download. Does it make sense to keep links to download for old releases on the download page? This can give a wrong impression that these are also OK to download. For