[Xastir-Dev] Re-org of file releases?

[Gerry Creager]

I like the concept of creating a heading for binaries and then 
subheadings for Slack, RH, etc.  That'll make some of us who're running 
successful releases to get off our duffs and make binary releases 
that'll help the other folken out there.

Gerry

Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> I perceive the number of downloads of xastir-1.1.0-i386-1.tgz to be
> a problem.  We're currently up to 897 downloads on that file.  I
> doubt people are reading the release notes, which identify that file
> as a Slackware binary.
> 
> I think what's happening is that people are trying that one first,
> then when it fails to run on their non-Slackware system they are
> downloading the sources.  Some people give up easily and probably
> don't ever get to that second step.
> 
> Options:
> 
> 1) Rename the file to include "slackware-8" in the name.
> 
> 2) Hide it altogether and just leave the tarball's available for
> download (no binary files available for download).
> 
> 3) Create another heading or subheading (if possible) in order to
> group binary releases in an easily recognizable manner.  I haven't
> checked yet whether this is possible with the current file release
> system.  There may be some capabilities that we're not using though
> that would help to organize what we have.
> 
> Other options?
> 
> It's probably worth a quick look at other projects to see how they
> organize their releases.  Anybody have any good candidates?
>