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Bug 196539

Summary:	New download page has no version numbers
Product:	Community	Reporter:	benson margulies <bimargulies>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	gunnar
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description benson margulies

2007-07-14 08:43:15 EDT

Build ID: very funny

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Go to new download (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/)
2. Note the absolute absence of version numbers
3. Note that there is no clue as to what to do if, perchance, you make use of ALL of C, C++, Java, J2EE, RCP


More information:
This page seems like a bad exercise in mass-marketing. Given that the update manager is not involved in the 3.2 -> 3.3 upgrade, us users are looking to this page to tell us '3.3 is released'. It says '3.3' noplace.

Also, asking for a build ID for a bug report on the web site is rather pouring salt into this wound.

Comment 1 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2007-07-14 09:37:06 EDT

Note sure if you recognized the orange box in the top right saying "eclipse europa is here". "europa" is actually the version of the whole thing.

The problem is that the packages are build out of many different plug-ins from various projects. Not sure which version number should be there ... just the Eclipse Platform number?

BTW, asking build IDs on bug submission forms is quite common. But yeah, it may not make sense for all Bugzilla products/component combinations.

Comment 2 benson margulies

2007-07-14 23:36:45 EDT

Up until this time around, the only version scheme I've ever seen is the number that went from 3.0 to 3.1 to 3.2 to 3.3. I can see why you'd want to invent a new version naming scheme to tame the situation with all the many components, but I guess I'd have found it a lot less confusing if the transition were explicit on the download page. 'We used to name all eclipse downloads by the platform version number, but now ...'

My cavail about the build id was really just lame humor. Since I was complaining that I didn't see a single version number on the web page, I felt some irony in being asked to specify a version number in the bug report.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2007-07-23 09:47:18 EDT

I admit it would be nice to know that all the packages/downloads are based on/for Eclipse 3.3.

Comment 4 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2007-07-23 10:02:31 EDT

+1 for "based on Eclipse Platform 3.3" or something along the lines

Comment 5 Denis Roy

2007-08-29 10:37:51 EDT

I've "solved" this as part of bug 199636 by adding the word "Europa" to the section header.  I went against using 3.3 for consistency between the Eclipse splash screen which sais "Europa", not 3.3.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 199636 ***