[jira] [Commented] (UIMA-4431) Clean up downloads page

["Marshall Schor (JIRA)" <de...@uima.apache.org>]

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Marshall Schor commented on UIMA-4431:
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Although I agree in the abstract, I think the decision to remove older things should be made based on our best guess :-) or informed feedback on what people are using.  (It would be good if we could track this...).

In other words, if we think people are still using UIMA 2.6.0, then we make it harder by removing these links, and making them navigate the archive to find the right file, etc.

There's probably 2 separate issues here: one is "taking up space", and the other is having "easy access".  We can alleviate the "taking up space" but leave the "easy access" by changing the links to ref the archives, instead of using the Apache mirror system.  Again, that would be good to do once the frequency of use of the (older) links dropped.  

> Clean up downloads page
> -----------------------
>
>                 Key: UIMA-4431
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-4431
>             Project: UIMA
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: Website
>            Reporter: Richard Eckart de Castilho
>            Assignee: Richard Eckart de Castilho
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: UIMA-4431.patch
>
>
> Btw, we are having stuff accumulating on the downloads page... imho
> it should only list the latest versions of our packages and for older
> versions only offer a generic reference to the Apache archive.
> I think the following changes should be made:
> - Remove DUCC 1.0.0
> - Remove UIMA 2.6.0
> - Factor UIMA-AS 2.6.0 out into a separate download section
>  and mention that it is compatible with UIMA 2.7.0
>  (I guess that's what we tell people on the list, so it might
>  as well be made official on the downloads page).
> - Remove Apache UIMA Version 2.5.0
> - Remove Apache UIMA Version 2.4.2
> - Remove Apache UIMA Version 2.4.0



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