Feature changed by: Sascha Peilicke (saschpe) Feature #310884, revision 3 Title: More user-friendly binary download from obs project pages - Buildservice: Unconfirmed + Buildservice: Implementation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jos Poortvliet (jospoortvliet) + Developer: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Today I bumped into the excellent FocusWriter application (http://gottcode.org/focuswriter/). It's author, Gott (double T, yes, not a d) uses OBS to deliver packages for several of the major distributions (mandriva, Fedora, openSUSE) to his users. Who will click the link to the package thus ending up on the OBS project page. Now from that point on, I can find the RPM and download it. And grandma won't even visit the OBS page, getting lost on the FocusWriter site (if she gets there at all). But. How about those between total ignorance and complete geekdom? They will click the name of their distribution on the project page in OBS. And lo and behold, there is an RPM file mentioned there! Yay! *click* !FAIL Yes, they should go to repositories. Then, either start googling on how to add a repository to their linux distro, OR go and find their package in the directory tree presented to them. In other words, they either will give up (cursing the Build Service) or go crazy (singing it's praise, but who listens to crazy people?). So the request is to offer direct download links on the project (or package) homepage in OBS. For openSUSE - a one-click-install would be great. Esp if it figures out what version of openSUSE you run automatically (!). For other distro's the RPM(s) will probably suffice. May the Build Server be with you! Test Case: Send moderately geeky Fedora user to a Build Service page (eg order them to download FocusWriter). If they end up crying: FAIL. Use Case: sometimes people come to a home project to actually *download the freakin' packages build there*. So they should be able to do that in a rather obvious way, ergo the downloads should not be obscured and hidden from common human sight. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: At some point it'd be nice if end-users ALSO come to love the Build Service. Yes yes, a developer should offer the direct link or the repositories on his project webpage. I know. But users also end up on BS project pages from Google or searching the SUSE software repository on download.opensuse.org ;-) + Discussion: + #1: Sascha Peilicke (saschpe) (2011-02-18 11:24:10) + I'd say I already implemented this recently, When you click on any of + the repositories (or Distros, as casual user might identify them) in + the build results, you're directed to the download repository. When + clicking on anything in the build results for a package, you're + directly presented with download links. + Be sure to try on build.opensuse.org/stage -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310884