OK... so in looking at things, I think releases need to be treated as EXTRA special. What I mean by that is that they need to have a straightforward and obvious human-readable url. This gallery item with a non-related number (as in not related to the release) is incredibly odd and off-putting. I really think that for releases the url should be along the lines of https://inkscape.org/en/download/0.91.x/Inkscape-0.91.0.exe and not https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/3680/download/ (the first url is NOT REAL, the second is for a prerelease tarball which you probably don't need)
The current gallery item naming will probably cause more "alert" users to be overly cautious. I'm mainly bringing it up because when I saw the package urls from what bryce had uploaded my first thought was "I don't know what is at the other end of that url"... I'm not saying you ever really know or that you can't get re-directed away from what it says is your destination, just that it seems far more questionable. If I was unfamiliar with a project and saw a download that didn't point to an end file or an FTP directory, chances are I either wouldn't follow it or would otherwise seriously question why they're doing it that way and send an email.
Cheers, Josh
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 6:32 AM, su_v <suv-sf@...58...> wrote:
On 2015-01-18 15:21 (+0100), Martin Owens wrote:
I'm uploading Inkscape source packages, so none of the Categories fit exactly. I stuck it in Inkscape Build, but it's not a build. Perhaps 'Inkscape Package' would be a better categorization?
Aye, suv asked me to change it from release to build. But I guess package makes just as much sense. This ok with you suv?
Probably we need several tags (that last time I was asked to test uploading, it was for OS X _devel_ snapshot builds (trunk, 0.91.x), which at the time seemed wrong to me to be labelled 'release' IIRC (still would be, if there are plans to host those too on inkscape.org)).
Didn't check what is available right now.
Regards, V
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