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Jan Høydahl commented on SOLR-7413:
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I'd really like to refresh the Download page to look something like the Apache
Cloudstack page: [https://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html]
I like how they introduce the software, spell out what version is the last and
which is the LTS one, and also the buttons to fetch the SHA, ASC and KEYS files
directly from Apache servers. The page also talks about the importance of
validating the download and provides a link to the archive too.
We should also merge in the info from
[http://lucene.apache.org/solr/community.html#about-versions] into the
downloads page.
To avoid having to commit changes to the downloads page for every release, it
should be possible to generate the version specific text and links dynamically
with JS. I imagine the JS code pulling in
[https://projects.apache.org/json/projects/lucene-solr.json] and from there
parse what is the latest version as well as the latest bugfix version for
previous major version, and generate all the links. With this in place we
(still) don't need to commit updates to this page.
As a bonus we can also show the release date and generate links to release
notes.
> Website: downloading past releases is harder than it should be
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: SOLR-7413
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7413
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: website
> Reporter: Steve Rowe
> Assignee: Steve Rowe
> Priority: Minor
>
> Clicking on the "Download" button at the top of every Solr website page takes
> you to [http://lucene.apache.org/solr/mirrors-solr-latest-redir.html] (let's
> call it the download-redirect page), which pauses for 3 seconds and then
> auto-redirects to the Apache download mirror page for the latest Solr
> release. The download-redirect page has info about downloading past
> releases, but there are problems with the current setup:
> # The 3 second auto-redirect doesn't allow enough time to read the page
> before it's gone.
> # Firefox (latest version, on OS X and Windows) doesn't include the page in
> its browser history, so you can't go back - clicking the back button will
> take you to the page you were on when you clicked the "Download" button, not
> back to the download-redirect page.
> # Internet Explorer and Chrome include the download-redirect page in their
> history, so clicking the back button will go there, but then after three
> seconds you get redirected to the Apache download mirrors page, whack-a-mole
> style.
> When I was putting the download-redirect page together, I guess I only tested
> on Safari on OS X 10.10. This browser keeps the download-redirect page in
> its history, so clicking the back button after the auto-redirect takes you to
> the mirror pages will take you back to the download-redirect page, and the
> auto-redirect never recurs.
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