Download page.

[Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org>]

Hey.

I just restructured the download page. Let me explain why, for the 115th
time:

  * Ordering of download links: Sources MUST be before convenience
    binaries. ASF releases are source packages, not binary stuff that
    no-one really knows where it came from.

  * 3rd-party downloads links: First of all, it's entirely unreasonable
    to put these first, before our official releases. We're supposed to
    be vendor-neutral. Accordingly, I put these at the bottom of the
    page. I also reduced the section to just a link to the 3rd-party
    download page, with a short description. We don't do advertising or
    analytics or whatnot for 3rd parties.

Please, guys, stop thinking with your employee hats on and start
thinking like ASF committers, i.e., neutral volunteers. This change of
viewpoint is, IMO, the biggest (and almost last) remaining hurdle before
graduation.

-- Brane

Fwd: Download page.

[Dmitriy Setrakyan <ds...@apache.org>]

Brane,

Thanks for the review!

I actually asked everyone to review the download page when I changed it.
The reason I put the GridGain community edition up top is because from the
user standpoint it is the most stable release, as it has the latest bug
fixes (as you know the voting process for an official release may take
several weeks which delays the bug fixing process).

As we approach graduation, I think it will become less of an issue going
forward.

D.

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Branko Čibej <br...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hey.
>
> I just restructured the download page. Let me explain why, for the 115th
> time:
>
>   * Ordering of download links: Sources MUST be before convenience
>     binaries. ASF releases are source packages, not binary stuff that
>     no-one really knows where it came from.
>
>   * 3rd-party downloads links: First of all, it's entirely unreasonable
>     to put these first, before our official releases. We're supposed to
>     be vendor-neutral. Accordingly, I put these at the bottom of the
>     page. I also reduced the section to just a link to the 3rd-party
>     download page, with a short description. We don't do advertising or
>     analytics or whatnot for 3rd parties.
>
> Please, guys, stop thinking with your employee hats on and start
> thinking like ASF committers, i.e., neutral volunteers. This change of
> viewpoint is, IMO, the biggest (and almost last) remaining hurdle before
> graduation.
>
> -- Brane
>