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Bug 343564

Summary:	Provide some help with update site/repository links
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton>
Component:	m2e	Assignee:	Pascal Rapicault <pascal>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	denis.roy, igor, matthew, p.kelleners, pascal
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.eclipse.org/m2e/download/
Whiteboard:

Description Wayne Beaton

2011-04-21 10:55:22 EDT

Some members of our community, especially newer members, may be confused by the apparently broken links to the update sites on the downloads page. I recommend either including a index page in the update sites, or adding some words above the links.

Maybe a link to the help might be useful as well.

http://help.eclipse.org/helios/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-124.htm
http://help.eclipse.org/helios/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-127.htm

FWIW, it might be nice to create a "website" component for these sorts of bugs.

Comment 1 Igor Fedorenko

2011-04-21 11:56:26 EDT

As a side note, I wonder if download.eclipse.org should just show directory listings by default... to make things less confusing  for all members of Eclipse community, not just m2e users ;-)

Comment 2 Wayne Beaton

2011-04-21 13:19:44 EDT

(In reply to comment #1)
> As a side note, I wonder if download.eclipse.org should just show directory
> listings by default... to make things less confusing  for all members of
> Eclipse community, not just m2e users ;-)

Maybe. But isn't it the case that the links are basically meaningless, anyway? 

Let's say we turn on directory listings... somebody clicks the link and is given a directory listing. Then what?

Comment 3 Igor Fedorenko

2011-04-21 13:53:41 EDT

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > As a side note, I wonder if download.eclipse.org should just show directory
> > listings by default... to make things less confusing  for all members of
> > Eclipse community, not just m2e users ;-)
> 
> Maybe. But isn't it the case that the links are basically meaningless, anyway? 
> 
> Let's say we turn on directory listings... somebody clicks the link and is
> given a directory listing. Then what?

Maybe not directory listings... My point is, currently all eclipse projects have to do something to make update sites less confusing for new(er) users. I think it would be nice if download.eclipse.org rendered update sites as something more cheerful than 404-File-not-Found by default. It would benefit all eclipse projects and you wouldn't need to chase all of us individually.

Comment 4 Wayne Beaton

2011-04-21 13:57:27 EDT

I agree.

The current 404 page does actually give some information about what might be wrong and suggests that maybe the link is for an update site (it even gives a link to the help documentation).

I'm not sure what more we can do.

Comment 5 Matthew Piggott

2011-04-21 14:04:53 EDT

Funnily enough I wrote something to generate a website from a p2 repository that has a layout similar to the Install Software page, I had planned to hook into the p2 import/export feature.  Its not quite finished but I might get time over the weekend.

Comment 6 Igor Fedorenko

2011-08-12 02:57:05 EDT

*** Bug 354577 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Igor Fedorenko

2011-09-27 09:37:55 EDT

*** Bug 359055 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Igor Fedorenko

2013-09-28 23:27:41 EDT

This was worked around by not using <a href=blah> in m2e download page... long time ago. I still believe this is a problem with eclipse.org download infra, but I am not fighting this battle.

Comment 9 Denis Roy

2021-04-19 13:23:58 EDT

Moved to https://github.com/eclipse-m2e/m2e-core/issues/