Hey On Thu, May 26, 2011, Fathi Boudra wrote: > ==== releases.linaro.org layout proposal 1====
Jamie, Alexander and myself once had a long and relatively painful discussion about the ideal layout; my main argument in the discussion was that the names and contents of our releases will keep changing, we will rebrand the names we use for our outputs (e.g. "LEB" or platform images), we will add and remove outputs, so my proposal was for the toplevel to be the date of the release, much like the http://releases.ubuntu.com/ toplevel. For a similar discussion on snapshots.linaro.org, http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ might be a good example where there's only a toplevel by "project", then subdirs by date or arch, or whatever. The main advantage of having a /$year-$month/ toplevel is that you magically historize the old product names; people will want the latest release anyway. Back when Alexander, Jamie and I had this discussion, there was an area of confusion for the end-user because we had 6-monthly outputs and monthly outputs, and monthly outputs were not on releases.linaro.org. But interestingly your argument is about user experience, not about the best layout. I don't think browsing a file hierarchy over http is a particularly friendly user experience, nor reading multiple web pages, downloading multiple bits. A better user experience is if we can provide pre-built consumable images as we discussed at Budapest, or if we can provide a tool to download the right hwpack + rootfs for your board and then run linaro-media-create automatically; James Tunnicliffe is working on such a "TestDrive" tool. It's fair to say that we could make the web user experience better, but instead of changing the layout, could we simply provide entry points to browse related things together? For instance we could offer a search page to find all OMAP related downloads. Or we could generate a page per board with all the latest files related to this board. As part of TestDrive, James Tunnicliffe wrote a tool to scan images on releases.linaro.org and generate a sqlite3 db. We could use this tool or this db, or a similar approach, as the source of information for "everything related to beagleboard" or "latest images for all platforms". Integration with Launchpad could we done via launchpadlib; no need to copy the tarballs around, or change existing practices or hosting locations. Cheers, -- Loïc Minier _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
