| Downloads page is confusing - questions and suggestions [message #576048] |
Wed, 20 February 2008 19:14 |
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Hi guys,
I'd like to be a good sport and try out the EPP projects because I think
they're a great idea. But I find the EPP downloads page
http://www.eclipse.org/epp/download.php
confusing and I couldn't actually download what I was expecting I could.
Some comments:
1) Should be organized by project:
The reason that I went to this page is not that I care about every EPP,
but that I care about a particular one. In this case, I was referred
here by the webtools 3.4 M5 page
http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R3.0/S- 3.0M5-20080218021547/
that asks if folks could please try out the EPP project occassionally.
The resulting EPP page thus confused me initially because I was
confronted with a table with build IDs along the top. I'd suggest that
there be a different build/download page for each packaging project to
focus on the packaging the person cares about - less overwhealming and I
could've been linked to the right spot from the webtools page.
2) Couldn't find the download:
If I click in the table on the topmost "Success" for say JEE, or any of
the other successes, I get what appears to be the build result script.
Where's the actual download?
3) Missing milestone granularity:
I really don't want to download a nightly build, what I'd like to
download is something that represents a given milestone of the contained
projects, just like I would for those individual projects. That way
there's at least a chance that it'll work, and there's something known
to log bugs against. But the table only shows the last four autobuilds
that only takes me back two days, and I didn't see an archive.
So in total the page was a complete failure for me, which is a shame.
The more we can increase the consumability of this page, the more we can
increase use of the packaging projects prior to GA, which seems a good
thing.
Cheers,
Kevin
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