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Bug 358308 - MPC home page update site links are broken
Summary: MPC home page update site links are broken
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 385523
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Marketplace (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Marketplace Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2011-09-20 17:08 EDT by Rafael Chaves CLA
Modified: 2014-11-04 16:11 EST (History)
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Description Rafael Chaves CLA 2011-09-20 17:08:39 EDT 
The MPC home page has a couple of links to Indigi and Helios update sites, and they are both broken.

Go to: http://www.eclipse.org/mpc/

Try the following links:

Helios Update Site http://download.eclipse.org/mpc/helios/
Indigo Update Site http://download.eclipse.org/mpc/indigo/
Comment 1 Christopher Guindon CLA 2013-10-07 10:43:05 EDT 
Changing to invalid, both urls are Update sites. You must access it from Eclipse.

See how:

http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp?topic=//org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-127.htm

Thanks
Comment 2 Rafael Chaves CLA 2013-10-07 11:28:04 EDT 
But then why link to them and misrepresent them as download links? That just generates confusion.

Reopening for consideration.
Comment 3 Ian Skerrett CLA 2013-10-07 11:52:48 EDT 
(In reply to Rafael Chaves from comment #2)
> But then why link to them and misrepresent them as download links? That just
> generates confusion.
> 
> Reopening for consideration.

We link to them because people ask us where our update site is. Do you have a suggestion for a better way of communcating the update site url?
Comment 4 Rafael Chaves CLA 2013-10-07 12:05:49 EDT 
I have seen people show the update site URLs as plain text (instead of HTML links). 

I have also seen links with clear warnings close to them explaining they are update sites and cannot be opened via browser. The Eclipse.org web site generic 404 page does mention the URL being an update site as a possibility but users are trained not to read beyond a 404/Not Found. Better to tell users in clear terms that at the source.

Is there a use case that requires an actual link? If not, the former seems preferrable.
Comment 5 Christopher Guindon CLA 2013-10-07 13:18:13 EDT 
(In reply to Ian Skerrett from comment #3)
> (In reply to Rafael Chaves from comment #2)
> > But then why link to them and misrepresent them as download links? That just
> > generates confusion.
> > 
> > Reopening for consideration.
> 
> We link to them because people ask us where our update site is. Do you have
> a suggestion for a better way of communcating the update site url?

On marketplace, the update site is inserted inside of a textbox. 

We could do the same on http://www.eclipse.org/mpc/ ?

For example, click on the green arrow on this page:
http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/subversive-svn-team-provider#.UlLskLxeJGE
Comment 6 Christopher Guindon CLA 2014-11-04 16:11:34 EST 
Closing this bug. This is fixed now:

Helios Update Site http://download.eclipse.org/mpc/helios/
Indigo Update Site http://download.eclipse.org/mpc/indigo/

thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 385523 ***