On Saturday, October 13, 2012 8:23:57 AM UTC-7, Paul Belanger wrote: > On Friday, October 12, 2012 10:10:54 AM UTC-4, windowsrefund wrote: >> >> Recently, there have been some changes made to the Puppetlabs website >> which result in the free software releases being difficult to locate and >> download. >> >> Visitors using the download links are taken directly to the non-free >> "Enterprise" option rather than being presented with an option. >> >> Personally, I'd like to see the site reverted so users have the option. >> >> FYI, the wiki section still provides this useful content here: >> >> http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/downloading_puppet >> >> Best, >> Adam Kosmin >> > > I was asking this on IRC the other day. I understand the need to collect > information for prospective customers, however requiring a pay wall > (personal information) to access the open source tarballs does not seem to > be in the spirit of free software[1]. >
There are lots of ways people get open source Puppet, and not many people actually grab them in tarball form from the website from the stats we have. Apart from being in the distributions, most of you seem to be getting software from the apt/yum repos, which don't require a paywall: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html If you're hitting the main page, yes, the "Download" link goes to PE by default, with a link to the OSS download page at the bottom. The "Products -> Puppet Open Source" link on the main page takes you here: http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-open-source/ where we promote getting the source from GitHub rather than tarballs directly from us. The reasoning has generally been that if you want to use Puppet, the best way of consuming it is via packages, and if you want to get the source, the best way of consuming it is via Git. That way updates are simpler for users, and development from source is simpler for developers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/3333vo711VUJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
