@dave, all
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ had received some lifting. It's still a work in progress but it should resolved some of the issue raised. Please, take a look. feedback is welcome.
On 7 September 2011 01:13, Christian Robottom Reis kiko@linaro.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:18:18AM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
a) Is the omission of the "Developers and Community Builds" links from http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ intentional? This is a concern, because these links contain the _only_ deliverables for certain platform and filesystem combinations. The wiki release page itself is not easily findable without going to the wiki.
It's not intentional, but we chose to keep them out for a bit to try and figure out how to keep the LEBs "special". But this time around, you can see them live:
http://www.linaro.org/downloads/
I did mention today to Alexander that I would like to see the "Download for:" column cleaned up -- perhaps by moving the set to be split across rows, or something else visually smart.
b) The release page on the wiki contains important information like the list of known issues. Shouldn't this page be linked from http://www.linaro.org/downloads/ or some other prominent location? I don't see how to get to it at present. A visitor won't know that they have to go to the wiki for this information.
It's now linked, but I somehow feel that we should have these visible from the main download page. Perhaps as a set of tabs inside Downloads -- Downloads, Release Notes? Or Dave, do you think the way we have it now is good enough for the moment?
c) The known issues list on the wiki release page doesn't seem include all the issues reported during testing. Will these get propagated, or is it the responsibility of testers to add the relevant information to the known issues list themselves?
That's a good point. I may have missed a reply to this -- what's the plan?
There isn't any plan. I replied in a previous mail what's the process to escalate a bug to the known issues list. In addition, we added the following link on the downloads website: "Full details of this release, including detailed release highlights and known issues, can be found on the release pages of our Wiki."
d) For vexpress specifically, there is no link from the release pages or downloads to the specific installation instructions applicable to this board. Even I find these difficult to find without bookmarking. Because that information is very board-specific, I don't think it needs to be included on https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DevPlatform/Ubuntu/ImageInstallation -- but can we at least have a link on there pointing to the appropriate page?
That's sort of what I am saying with my comment above about cleaning up the "Download for:" column. Instead of stapling them all together, how about:
Nano Natty 11.08 <download link> TI Beagleboard <instructions> ARM Versatile <instructions> ST-Ericsson Snowball <instructions>
I realize the download link isn't exactly unique per-board and that we have no way of fixing that in the near term. But at least the design aboves is a step forward.
Finally, WTF is "Android Machine"? :-)
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