Hi,Fathi Boudra IT is a good idea and Thanks for the work.
On 26 May 2011 17:24, Loïc Minier <loic.min...@linaro.org> wrote: > 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 > -- JUST DO IT,NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE
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