IT is a good idea and Thanks for the work.

On 26 May 2011 17:24, Loīc Minier <loic.minier@linaro.org> wrote:

Hey

On Thu, May 26, 2011, Fathi Boudra wrote:
> ==== releases.linaro.org layout proposal 1====

Jamie, Alexander and myself once had a long and relatively painful
discussion about the ideal layout; my main argument in the discussion
was that the names and contents of our releases will keep changing, we
will rebrand the names we use for our outputs (e.g. "LEB" or platform
images), we will add and remove outputs, so my proposal was for the
toplevel to be the date of the release, much like the
http://releases.ubuntu.com/ toplevel. For a similar discussion on
snapshots.linaro.org, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ might be a good
example where there's only a toplevel by "project", then subdirs by
date or arch, or whatever.
The main advantage of having a /$year-$month/ toplevel is that you
magically historize the old product names; people will want the latest
release anyway.
Back when Alexander, Jamie and I had this discussion, there was an
area of confusion for the end-user because we had 6-monthly outputs and
monthly outputs, and monthly outputs were not on releases.linaro.org.

But interestingly your argument is about user experience, not about the
best layout. I don't think browsing a file hierarchy over http is a
particularly friendly user experience, nor reading multiple web pages,
downloading multiple bits. A better user experience is if we can
provide pre-built consumable images as we discussed at Budapest, or if
we can provide a tool to download the right hwpack + rootfs for your
board and then run linaro-media-create automatically; James Tunnicliffe
is working on such a "TestDrive" tool.
It's fair to say that we could make the web user experience better,
but instead of changing the layout, could we simply provide entry
points to browse related things together? For instance we could offer
a search page to find all OMAP related downloads. Or we could generate
a page per board with all the latest files related to this board.

As part of TestDrive, James Tunnicliffe wrote a tool to scan images on
releases.linaro.org and generate a sqlite3 db. We could use this tool
or this db, or a similar approach, as the source of information for
"everything related to beagleboard" or "latest images for all platforms".
Integration with Launchpad could we done via launchpadlib; no need to
copy the tarballs around, or change existing practices or hosting
locations.

Cheers,
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Loīc Minier

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