Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (341 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 14:22:04 schrieb Eric Springer:
> Stephan,
>
> I think we got off the wrong foot. I don't mean to rock the boat --
> I'm just new at this. Web development isn't my forte, I've never used
> ruby nor worked on a project where I don't have direct commit/svn
> access. But I do want to contribute, and can pick up these things
> quickly.

Hi,

I'm very thankful for everyone actually doing something, if you got a 
different impression, then it's all my fault.

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The change looks too intrusive.
>
> Only at first glance. It's definitely not perfect, and will need
> further revisions *but* there are no regressions and it makes it more
> useful than it currently is. And it will take all of 10 seconds to
> change for an alpha release. But in then again, in my opinion a page
> saying: "Go to download.opensuse.org/factory/iso" would be better than
> what we have now (the links are currently broken and the page is
> confusing)

Then we should do exactly that instead of pretending we can maintain two sets
of web pages. As a matter of fact, a simple redirect is pretty easy to add in 
a javascript page. I don't know the exact syntax, but google should be able to
tell ;)

And that redirect could either point to /Download directly or some new subpage 
in the wiki.

> > I would  rather see a more general rework
> > where you set a global flag show_factory=true
>
> It'd be nice. But right now it's a static page, so I'm not sure of the
> motivations and requirements behind that.
>
> But on that note, when the alpha / beta / rc does come along -- why
> should it really be replacing the factory download anyway? I really
> think we should have /developer.html (or rename it to /factory.html)
> which will always have (or link to) the latest factory snapshots.
Actually, once we release betas it's much more welcome if people test them
to avoid us hunting bugs that will go away next day due to failed rebuild or
something.

So I would simply add a redirect to the developer.html that can be commented 
out in a second. The wiki page it redirects to can of course stay - just as 
the automatically updated ISOs will stay.

Greetings, Stephan

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