Website request: include an easy-to-get-to link to downloads
Narcis Garcia
informatica at actiu.net
Tue Nov 17 07:31:54 UTC 2015
I also feel the path to follow too large, al least for .torrent downloads.
Additionally I suggest to not make links for "_blank" target.
El 17/11/15 a les 01:53, Patrik Bubák ha escrit:
> I agree with what has been said. We've discussed this a long time ago
> with the marketing team and the new website will definitely be more
> straighforward.
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Website request: include an easy-to-get-to link to
> downloads
> Local Time: November 16 2015 11:00 pm
> UTC Time: November 16 2015 10:00 pm
> From: lbsolost at yahoo.com
> To: steve.lorimer at gmail.com,amjjawad at gnome.org
> CC: ubuntu-gnome at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>
> On 11/16/2015 03:17 PM, Steve Lorimer wrote:
>> Hi Ali.
>>
>> The way I explained how to download Ubuntu Gnome wasn't an attempt
>> to help people find the download link. It was a step-by-step run
>> down of the process I had to go through in order to find the link
>> as a newcomer to the distro and the website.
>>
>> In doing do, I was attempting to illustrate just how difficult and
>> convoluted the hoops are one has to go through in order to
>> download it.
>>
>> IMHO I don't think making the download link difficult to find will
>> make people any more or less likely to read the release notes. If
>> people are too lazy to read the release notes then they're not
>> going to read them, regardless of how hard it is to find the
>> download link.
>>
>> The pages you linked to
>> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME/LTS and <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME/Non-LTS>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME/Non-LTS)
>> both prominently implore people to read the release notes.
>>
>> Would it not be reasonable to have a Download page with nothing
>> other than the above 2 links on them?
>>
>>
>
> Seems reasonable to me.
>
> Lance
>
>
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>>
>>
>> On 16 November 2015 at 01:31, Ali/amjjawad <amjjawad at gnome.org
>> <mailto:amjjawad at gnome.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Steve and everyone else,
>>
>>
>> My apology for the delay but I don't login here when it's the
>> weekends. I take 2 days off from everything hoping to recharge
>> and think clearly to solve my problems during the week and
>> working at home, etc etc. So Sat and Sun are my off days :)
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 1:43 AM, Steve Lorimer
>> <steve.lorimer at gmail.com <mailto:steve.lorimer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> IMHO, I think it is frustratingly difficult to download
>> Ubuntu Gnome.
>>
>>
>> Appreciate your feedback :)
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is how you currently download:
>>
>> Google Ubuntu Gnome
>>
>> This leads to
>> <https://ubuntugnome.org/>https://ubuntugnome.org/
>>
>>
>> Read the page until you see: *The latest stable release is
>> Ubuntu GNOME 15.10.*
>>
>>
>> This leads to a blog
>> post: <https://ubuntugnome.org/ubuntu-gnome-15-10-is-released/>https://ubuntugnome.org/ubuntu-gnome-15-10-is-released/
>>
>>
>> Read until you see: *Get Ubuntu GNOME 15.10. *Click
>> on *Download Ubuntu GNOME 15.10*
>>
>> This takes you to:
>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME
>>
>>
>> Read until you find *Please use the torrent link to
>> download. *Click on that link.
>>
>> This takes you
>> to <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitTorrent>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BitTorrent
>>
>>
>> Read until you find *Ubuntu bittorrent files can be found
>> at
>> <http://releases.ubuntu.com/>http://releases.ubuntu.com/. *Click
>> on that link.
>>
>> This takes you
>> to <http://releases.ubuntu.com/>http://releases.ubuntu.com/
>>
>>
>> Find and click on the appropriate link: *Ubuntu GNOME*.
>> Click on that link.
>>
>> This takes you
>> to <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/>http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/
>>
>>
>> Click *15.10*
>>
>> This takes you
>> to <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/15.10/>http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/15.10/
>>
>>
>> Click *release*
>>
>> This takes you
>> to <http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/15.10/release/>http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/15.10/release/
>>
>>
>> Find the appropriate file:
>> *ubuntu-gnome-15.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent*
>>
>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/15.10/release/ubuntu-gnome-15.10-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent
>>
>>
>> Would it not be reasonable to have a link to the torrent
>> directly on the homepage?
>>
>> Something like:
>>
>> *Download latest version 15.10 via BitTorrent*
>>
>> For reasons why bittorrent is best, and other ways to
>> download if required, *click here*.
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>> IMHO, the way you explained and described it is really hard
>> for anyone. Allow me to make life much easier for you and the
>> rest :)
>>
>> Let's start from zero:
>>
>> 1. Open your browser.
>> 2. Type: ubuntugnome.org <http://ubuntugnome.org> and then
>> press Enter.
>> 3. Go to "Download" tab on the top of the page directly if
>> you're willing to download any version without reading
>> anything else and find the last link that says "Download
>> Ubuntu GNOME" and by the way, the page is short so no need
>> to scroll down a lot to reach there anyway *- OR -* simply
>> go directly to:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME and I'd
>> suggest here to bookmark that very important page.
>> 4. On the https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME
>> page, you will find a tree-view links on the right side of
>> the page. Click on the version you wish to download and get.
>> 5. Once you choose which version you need, you will go to the
>> desired page. There are 2 pages, one for the Non-LTS and
>> the other for LTS releases:
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME/LTS and
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME/Non-LTS
>> and that's all.
>>
>> So, which scenario is easier now? ;)
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Of course, there is a reason and a very valid one why I
>> haven't made it a one-click download. Because people are too
>> lazy to read the release notes and then, they rain our mailing
>> list with tons of emails complaining ;)
>>
>> If you want me to make it one-button download links then
>> please, do find some extra hands to help us here!
>>
>> Otherwise, it is usually one 3-5 people are active and the
>> rest are? no idea ...
>>
>> Hope that helps?
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us."
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>
>>
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