[ANN] bzr 2.3.3 released !

[Liam Routt]

Just sayin'...

It is odd to see an announcement on the front page of 
http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/ which says that 2.3.3 is released, and 
yet be unable to find it in the Downloads page you can get to from there 
(at least for the Windows package, which is what I happened to be 
looking for).

I usually (yes, I've had this before) then go back and view the 
announcement in the news section (which points to 
https://launchpad.net/bzr/+announcement/8387), but that doesn't do 
anything at all to obviously point me to a download location, although 
it does highlight that all users of earlier 2.3 should upgrade...

Looking around on the launchpad (actually not from the news item itself, 
as mentally I'm still figuring I'm on bazaar.canonical.com at that 
point, but getting there from elsewhere) I eventually get to the all 
downloads page (as there isn't a new download listed for 2.3.3 Windows 
on the front page, which confuses me for a moment). And then I find 
there aren't any packages for Windows there either.

So I've returned to this message on the mailing list, to find that some 
of the packages are not available, but "will be available soon".

 From the point of view of a user, this is all confusing. I'd rather see 
an announcement when the packages are all ready, rather than when the 
first ones are ready. Ideally you want the whole website to point to the 
new material at the same time; and really you might want the 
announcement news item to more clearly indicate where to look for the 
packages, and which ones are actually available.

Again, "just sayin'"... :)

Definitely looking forward to the upgrade!

Take care,

Liam Routt
Media Saints

On 20/05/2011 9:37 PM, Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We've got a new stable release: 2.3.3
>
> 2.3.2 has been skipped due to an issue in the release process, so don't
> search for it ;)
>
> This is a bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for all users on
> earlier 2.3 releases.
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed patches, suggestions, and feedback.
>
> Bazaar is now available for download from
> https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.3/2.3.3/ as a source tarball; packages for
> various systems are or will be available soon.
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