Re: Poor Yum User Download Experience

FYI, all the problems I reported below still exist.  However, I am
wondering how much I, as a community member, am supposed to care about
user download experience that is not controlled by the community, so I
am going to wait for actual download users to complain.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> As part of the mistaken debug/assert 8.4.4 RPM build, I started looking
> at the user experience of downloading these packages, and found the
> experience to be very poor.
> 
> >From our download page, http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux#yum, I
> clicked on "PostgreSQL Yum repository".
> 
> That points to a moved link that tells you to go to:
> 
>     https://public.commandprompt.com/projects/pgcore/wiki
> 
> On that page, under "Configure Yum", you are supposed to click on "1.
> Yum", which didn't seem obvious to me.
> 
> Then, once there, you see:
> 
>     Letter P
>     
>     Packages beginning with letter "P".
>     
>         * pgdg-centos - PostgreSQL 9.0.X PGDG RPMs for CentOS - Yum Repository Configuration
>         * pgdg-fedora - PostgreSQL 9.0.X PGDG RPMs for Fedora - Yum Repository Configuration
>         * pgdg-redhat - PostgreSQL 9.0.X PGDG RPMs for RHEL - Yum Repository Configuration 
> 
> What kind of title is "Letter P"?  And all these downloads are marked as
> 9.0.X.
> 
> Then, once you click on one, it seems fine, though has improved since
> yesterday after I complained to Josh Drake about a directory listing
> that was confusing.
> 
> Back on the Yum download page there is a "Direct Download" section,
> which points to:
> 
>     https://public.commandprompt.com/projects/pgcore/wiki/Direct_download
> 
> which shows:
> 
>     8.4 - New release. Test before you upgrade.
> 
> Which obviously is inaccurate because 8.4 has been out for many months now.
> 
> The bottom line is that almost every page shows a laziness and
> sloppiness that makes the community look bad.  Contrast this with
> Devrim's RPM repository, which is easy to understand:
> 
>     http://yum.pgrpms.org/
> 
> Are there any other off-site download experiences as bad as the Yum one
> we link to now?
> 
> -- 
>   Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us
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> 
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