[CONF] Apache OpenOffice Community > Improvements for the download webpages

[Marcus Lange (Confluence)]

Improvements for the download webpages Page edited by Marcus Lange Comment: Updated status and added new items Changes (1) ... || Desciption || File || Issue ID || Owner || Target || Status || | Extend the list of known/unknown platforms with others from the old error webpage for MirrorBrain. | download/test/download.js download/test/index.html | -- | marcus | AOO 4.x | {highlight:yellow} In Progress {highlight} Test is running | | Integrate links to localized release notes into the download webpages. | download/test/index.html | -- | marcus | AOO 4.x | {highlight:red} Problem {highlight} \\ As log as the directory+filename structure is not unified, it will be more complicated than necessary | | Integrate file size values into the download links. Then the users can complete for themselves roughly if the downloaded file is complete. | download/test/index.html \\ download/test/other_tables.html | -- | marcus | AOO 4.x | New | | Move all script files into an own "scripts/" subdir. | download/\*.js \\ download/\*.css | -- | marcus | AOO 4.x | New | | Move all image files into an own "images/" and/or "cachedimages/" subdir. | *.gif \\ *.jpg \\ *.png | -- | marcus | AOO 4.x | New | ... Full Content Immediate Concerns, Short/Mid Term Improvements Re-work to start over with the next bigger release (AOO 4.0, etc.) Is the download working correctly for specific Linux + platform + browser combinations? Design Overhaul - why we need it Current State Current state - problems. Current state - good aspects. Design Overhaul - Ideas for Retooling Immediate Concerns, Short/Mid Term Improvements The following tasks need to be done to improve the download webpages: Desciption File Issue ID Owner Target Status Extend the list of known/unknown platforms with others from the old error webpage for MirrorBrain. download/test/download.js download/test/index.html – marcus AOO 4.x In Progress Test is running Integrate links to localized release notes into the download webpages. download/test/index.html – marcus AOO 4.x Problem As log as the directory+filename structure is not unified, it will be more complicated than necessary Integrate file size values into the download links. Then the users can complete for themselves roughly if the downloaded file is complete. download/test/index.html download/test/other_tables.html – marcus AOO 4.x New Move all script files into an own "scripts/" subdir. download/*.js download/*.css – marcus AOO 4.x New Move all image files into an own "images/" and/or "cachedimages/" subdir. *.gif *.jpg *.png – marcus AOO 4.x New Cleanup the "download/" directory. download/* – marcus AOO 4.x New Extended the logic to recognize Chromium browser to create download URL with deb or rpm package. download/download.js – ? ? New Currently no possible way is know to reach this Use version name and schema name to generate pack names to eliminate the long "if" statements. download/*.js – kschenk AOO 4.x New Set download directory names for any language based on version and mirror. Use in conjunction with name and schema for accessing installs – providing complete path to mirrors. download/index.html download/*.js – kschenk/marcus AOO 4.x New Chrom browser provide different platform data in "navigator.platform" and "navigator.userAgent" (i686 and x86_64), so it's not possible to handle this in our DL magic (see issue IDs for update). download/download.js Google 44905 128167 117524 86778 Google Chrome 22.0.1229.14 Resolved Fixed in version 22.0.1229.14 Not fixed in version 18.0.1025.151 Don't know what is inbetween In the green box, name clearly the Linux package that will be downloaded. Example: Click to start downloading the most recent version for Linux <32-bit │ 64-bit> <DEB │ RPM> and English (US) download/index.html download/download.js – marcus shortly after AOO 3.4.0 Resolved Extended the logic to recognize "IceWeasel" to create download URL with deb package. download/download.js – marcus shortly after AOO 3.4.0 Resolved Make the redirect for not-supported languages (like en-GB) work again download/index.html 119357 marcus shortly after AOO 3.4.0 Resolved In the sub-green box, shorten the text to make space for links to checksum files directly. Example: Other Platforms and Languages │ Legacy OOo Version │ Release Notes │ Signatures and Hashes: (Link to ASC), (Link to MD5), (Link to SHA1), (Link to SHA512) │ Verify your download with checksums download/index.html download/download.js – marcus AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Delete all stuff that has to do with Bouncer. download/*.js – marcus AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Delete all stuff that has to do with file name schema "old". These have the structure that was needed for Bouncer and is now no longer needed. download/*.js – marcus AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Delete all stuff that has to do with offering JRE builds. This will simplify making script work for all 3.x versions. download/*.js – marcus AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Delete the additional JS file and make sure that all is still working. download/download2.js – marcus AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Delete all stuff that has to do with the old download and webtracking download/download.js download/download_mirrorbrain.js – marcus AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Delete all stuff that has to do with offering JRE and Mac builds. download/languages.js – marcus AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Extend the lanuages with the native name (to ease the translation of the "index.html" webpage for the NL community) download/index.html download/languages.js – marcus AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Toggle all sites in languages.js with jre to 'n' and investigate Mac setting for each. * Marcus: IMHO we should simply delete the columns for JRE and Mac as it's no longer needed. download/languages.js – kschenk/marcus AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Cleanup the "download/test" subdir. see Kay's comment download/test/* – kschenk/marcus ? AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Delete legacy MD5sums files from "download/" as they are already in the "legacy/" subdir. download/md5sums/ download/legacy/md5sums/ – marcus shortly after AOO 3.4.0 Resolved Integrate the dev builds / nightly builds into the download webpages, refer to the Wiki page instead to create new download links download/index.html – marcus AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Extend the getLink() function to accept a specific ISO code to get forced to build a download URL for a specific language (and not only recognize the ISO code by "navigator.language") to allow localized download webpages on the several NL websites download/index.html download/download.js download_mirrorbrain.js – marcus AOO 3.4.1 Resolved Re-work to start over with the next bigger release (AOO 4.0, etc.) The following tasks need to be done to re-work the download webpages: Desciption File Issue ID Owner Target Status Part #2           Agree to a new directory structure. Current solution is: * /<PROJECT_NAME>/<VERSION>/source/ * /<PROJECT_NAME>/<VERSION>/binaries/<LANG>/ * /<PROJECT_NAME>/<VERSION>/binaries/SDK/ download/test/* – All (need to know: Release Manager, Kay, Marcus) AOO 4.0 Resolved Use a user dir on "people.apache.org" as test mirror and then put there some dummy files for testing. – – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Adjust the DL scripting to use the new directory structure. download/test/* – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Find some things to consolidate the scriping to reduce complexity. download/test/*.js – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Make sure the webpages are W3C Validator compliant download/test/*.html – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Do some larger test cases to verify the re-work download/test/* – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Part #1           Creating a new subdir "new/" to avoid any interferring of the other DL scripts. download/test/new/ – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Copying over the latest versions of the DL scripts to "new/". download/test/new/* – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Deleting the stuff regarding "we use 2/3 mirrors with a balanced system" (ASF / SF and MB). It seems that we we won't use it in the future. download/test/new/download.js – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Combine some *.js files to make it more simpler. At the end I want to have the following only: * globalvars.js * download.js * download_tables.js * languages.js download/test/new/*.js – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Create the table with download links automatically with parameters. Add the checksum links into the automatically created table. Implement hints for the "other_print.html". * Kay: empty line between the "download" and the checksum links (add another <br />). * Dennis: add labels to the table and change the TOC into clickable links to the labels. download/test/new/other.html – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Deleting any pointing and naming to Mirrorbrain (e.g., URLs, function names). It seems that we won't support this system anymore. download/test/new/*.js – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Refactor *.js files to cull out unused routines. download/*.js – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Separate the DL logic for ASF, SF and MB mirror systems into own files to get a better overview where is what located. * Kay: not sure this is needed. * Marcus: right, when all logic is in single file local variables can be used all over the place, clearly better. download/*.js – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Attempt to put getLink() and hasMirrorLink() in main page body with variable assignments to eliminate duplicate calls during processing. download/*.js – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Reduced duplicate calls Find some things to consolidate the scriping to reduce complexity. download/test/new/*.js – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved In the green box, present a respective text to the user that a download is not possible for the platform / language combination. Check the platform and language if a build is available. Example: Download Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 A release for <platform> and <language> is not available. Please choose from the alternative download webpage for another build. download/test/new/index.html – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Make sure the webpages are W3C Validator compliant download/test/new/*.html – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Do some testing to verify the re-work download/new/test/* – marcus AOO 4.0 Resolved Is the download working correctly for specific Linux + platform + browser combinations? Linux Package Manager Platform Browser Correct download Status Fedora RPM x86 Firefox Yes   Fedora RPM x86_86 Firefox Yes   Fedora RPM x86 Chrom Yes   Fedora RPM x86_86 Chrom No Browser doesn't provide the correct platform value, see item in table above, x86 will be used openSUSE RPM x86 Firefox Yes   openSUSE RPM x86_86 Firefox Yes   openSUSE RPM x86 Chrom Yes   openSUSE RPM x86_86 Chrom No Browser doesn't provide the correct platform value, see item in table above, x86 will be used Debian DEB x86 IceWeasel Yes   Debian DEB x86_86 IceWeasel Yes   Debian DEB x86 Chrom No Browser doesn't provide a recognizable value to differentiate between RPM and DEB, RPM will be used Debian DEB x86_86 Chrom No Browser doesn't provide a recognizable value to differentiate between RPM and DEB, RPM will be used Browser doesn't provide the correct platform value, see item in table above, x86 will be used Ubuntu DEB x86 IceWeasel Yes   Ubuntu DEB x86_86 IceWeasel Yes   Ubuntu DEB x86 Chrom (from distro) Yes   Ubuntu DEB x86_86 Chrom (from distro) No Browser doesn't provide the correct platform value, see item in table above, x86 will be used Ubuntu DEB x86 Chrom (from Google) No Browser doesn't provide a recognizable value to differentiate between RPM and DEB, RPM will be used Ubuntu DEB x86_86 Chrom (from Google) No Browser doesn't provide a recognizable value to differentiate between RPM and DEB, RPM will be used Browser doesn't provide the correct platform value, see item in table above, x86 will be used Ubuntu DEB x86 Opera No Browser doesn't provide a recognizable value to differentiate between RPM and DEB, RPM will be used Ubuntu DEB x86_86 Opera No Browser doesn't provide a recognizable value to differentiate between RPM and DEB, RPM will be used Browser doesn't provide the correct platform value, see item in table above, x86 will be used Design Overhaul – why we need it Current State Client is identified for OS, OS variant, language with JS (navigator.platform, navigator.user-agent). Package for client is provided based on a schema and a mirror location in JS – globalvars.js combined with a package naming, SCHEMA (for the desired version), client's language, and whether that client is available from the standard mirror or elsewhere. Language, package locations, and other variables (most no longer used) are defined as a JS array in languages.js. Current state – problems. The languages array now contains fields that are no longer used. The languages array is setup with majors of some languages, i.e. "en", with a cumbersome structure of sub-versions. As new language translations are added as standard to the mirror repository, the languages.js must be edited to reflect this. As new versions are provided, a change to the SCHEMA variable must be made. The current file structure on the mirrors for the distribution – "stable" vs "localized" makes it difficult to easily collect download statistics. The internal logic in the ".js" files – download.js , and download_mirrobrain.js – is fairly cumbersome and circuitous, making it difficult to ascertain results for more complicated cases, lack of navigator.platform, non-identifiable language, etc. Manual editing is needed to properly construct package names depending on the SCHEMA for the version. Due to so much manual editing, mistakes are likely. It's basically impossible to proved the same set of js scripts for each version we might want to provide to the client. Current state – good aspects. So far, it mostly works. Design Overhaul – Ideas for Retooling A means to generate an XML feed from the package build process that would provide information (existence) for each language/platform. This file would need to be concatenated with the existng XML file and saved in www.openoffice.org/download. Older versions no longer provided could be easily eliminated. An entry indicating mirror name would need to be provided in this tree as well. Additional details will follow. This would eliminate manual editing to control much of the DL process. Retool much of the js scripts to process the XML file, checking for the existence of the desired version w/language. Stop watching space | Change email notification preferences View Online | View Changes | Add Comment