request for review of Ubuntu 8.10 release announcement

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:58:57PM +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Neal McBurnett <neal at bcn.boulder.co.us> wrote:
> < I'd
> > suggest taking load off the mirrors, helping people help each other,
> > and making the bittorrent option more prominent and more convenient -
> > it should just be a checkbox on the
> > http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download page with a clear hint on how
> > much faster it can be when things are overloaded.
> 
> This is not so much a comment on the release announcement as a bug in
> the website: it's reported here for those who are interested:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/102974

I've requested (and received) comments from the Ubuntu website folks and
Canonical IS on this.  The short answer is that they feel the casual user
experience is sufficiently better for a standard download that they prefer
for that to be the most prominent option at present.

-- 
 - mdz