Re: download pages review

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 09:20 -0600, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Should we remove Obsolete releases from
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/3.0/ which looks scary enough
> without them?

Should say Older, not Obsolete..

It's only PRE releases, which by definiton is obsolete when the STABLE
is out.

I think these got the Obsolete label while the new round of Squid-3.0
was in PRE state, to set them apart from the newer PRE releases as there
is a very significant difference between the two.. but such distinction
is no longer relevant, and not even kept on that page.

To make things clearer we could move all older release to a separate
page "Archived older Squid-3.0 releases". This removes any confusion
there may be about what releases are current and what are obsolete..

I propose that the same headings used for 2.6 is used for 3.0 as well.

- Current STABLE release, suitable for production use
- Daily auto-generated release.
  This is the most recent code committed to the SQUID_3_0 branch.
- Older STABLE Releases
- Older Release Candidates
- PRE release history

> Should we remove "Not available yet" groups from
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v3/HEAD/ to avoid confusion that
> Squid3 has no stable releases or that 3.HEAD will eventually have them?

Squid-2 HEAD says "None planned. This is a development tree." which is
more to the point I think.

> Should we remove the talk about DEVEL, PRE, and STABLE from the first
> paragraph at http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/ because that page does
> not really use those labels. The paragraphs at the bottom are probably
> enough. The usability of those labels is a separate topic; let's not
> discuss it now.

Yes.

> Should we remove date columns from the "Development Versions" table at
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/ since they are misleading, wrong,
> and mostly useless, especially for .HEAD snapshots.

Historically it's been the date the last STABLE tree branched from HEAD,
opening up the tree for commits which will only be seen in the next
STABLE generation after that. It's a measure on how long development for
the release has been in progress, and a valuable measure to keep I
think.

> What is the purpose of the "First PRE Release Date" columns at
> http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/ ?

Good question. It's not really relevant as PRE versions is not for
production, only testing and review to get used to the upcoming
features.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Mar 20 2008 - 15:32:48 MDT