Business logic aside the biggest issue for me is that it is "difficult" to find the free software version without knowing any better.
As mentioned in this thread most distributions handle packaging Puppet nicely, as does rubygems. However a very good example is puppet 3.0 rc. I had been following the release notes for 3.0 for quite some time and was excited that rc7 was released and rc8 were released around the time I attended PuppetConf. It's not so much the fact that the tarball itself is not accessible, it's that it's difficult to find. The download page has mention of the open source version at the way bottom of the page in minor print compared to the rest of the page. I feel we'd be far better represented with a page that links to PE / OS version equally. I'd even be happy if you wanted to foresake the tarballs, but at least make the availability of the open source version more obvious. (Once clicked bring to a page that directs us to github for all I care.) I've referred friends to check out Puppet and most of them say "Oh, I downloaded the trial to test it!" without realizing there is an open source version at the bottom of the page which is more than adequate (and in my opinion more efficient to learn on) for their testing needs. Ultimately I can agree it's becoming a bit cumbersome to find, but most importantly it's becoming more "hidden" from the average new user to the site. Again I understand from a business logic, but I believe you'd be served well enough by equally weighting the links on the download page. You'd keep both the enterpriser's happy and the zealots happy. (Relatively. :) -- 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/-/5PwwqDLs9dsJ. 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.
