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When you have a spare moment or two, it would be a considerable service to the consumer community to improve the Jetty download web pages. http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/ It might just be me but looking at a particular build, for example, http://download.eclipse.org/jetty/8.0.0.M1/dist/ it is very hard to figure out which of those things is actually Jetty. My best guess is that only 2 are the distribution and everything else is hashes and "other stuff"
A bit more feedback. On the main downloads page it is hard to tell what the most recent release is. I know how Eclipse works so figure that an "M" build is not what I want. Stable-7 looks attractive but there is no information as to what it actually is (if I already have 7.x is that one newer?). The 7.2 stuff could be it there is an RC0 and then a "real" version. I'd have expected more RCs if it was really released (but perhaps I know too much...)
Jeff, The "Stable-7" is a link to whatever is the most recent release of jetty 7 (as of today that is 7.2.0.v20101020). Perhaps we should add some more links in there for jetty-8 to make it clear that 8 is not yet stable. We could also add onto the page a link to our release matrix: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Starting/Porting_to_Jetty_7 and more fulsomely described here: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Downloading+Jetty Jan
(In reply to comment #2) > The "Stable-7" is a link to whatever is the most recent release of jetty 7 (as > of today that is 7.2.0.v20101020). Great. Idealy the download page would show that so people who already have "the latest" can tell if their "latest" is the same as your "latest". > Perhaps we should add some more links in there for jetty-8 to make it clear > that 8 is not yet stable. Not that it is the be all and end all but I'm talking about something like the Equinox download page. http://download.eclipse.org/equinox/ Section headings and very modest text so that people can easily identify the builds of interest. > We could also add onto the page a link to our release matrix: > http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Starting/Porting_to_Jetty_7 Sure though it would be best if the downloads page were self-contained. Anyway, just some feedback from someone who went and tried to "get Jetty" and ended up having to ask a committer what the right thing was.
I've updated the index.sh script so that it produces some more information about each line. I've also assigned this issue to Jesse - can you (or hughes?) update the wiki to include instructions as to how to generate the P2 and eclipseRTJetty artefacts - so they can be built for the latest. cheers
joakim has been tinkering with this, assigning to him
done another pass through this, will continue making incremental updates
