On 9/22/20 4:03 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 9:24 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org > <mailto:jkatz@postgresql.org>> wrote: > > Hi, > > As Dave mentioned in some earlier thread, we've been conducting an > experiment over the outbound links on the downloads page so we can > further optimize layout. We've collected several months of results, and > per analysis of that, we have a few proposed changes. > > As this is effectively "release eve" and the lag between "discussion of > experiment" to "implementation of patches" was longer than I wanted, I > wanted to propose the least invasive, best for our user patches that > would require limited discussion. > > (I will publish a proposal for the ones that require more discussion > later). > > As such, the goal of this patchset is to make things even clearer for > our users on what they can download and ensuring that it is a good > experience. > > Without further ado, here are five patches: > > * Remove the "Build from Source" section on each of the Linux package > pages. The traffic to those pages overwhelmingly (> 99+%) went for some > form of pre-built package; people who wanted the source code would grab > it based on the URL off of the main downloads page (which had a much > higher clickthrough rate). > > * URLs to the BigSQL packages are removed as the website is no longer > available. > > * Retitle the Linux distro packages to "native packages"; removed Debian > backports section due to lack of traffic. > > > I think that's a bad name. Native packages is in my experience normally > the term used to refer to e.g. DEBs and RPMs in comparison to things > like installers, tarballs and source installs. And per that definition, > that would include both both the distro built-in and th ones from our > projects.
Alright, sounds like we should discuss that further. I've repurposed this patch...
> +1 for the removal of the explicit backports reference thouhg.
...to this.
> * Shorten the description on the macOS page and reorder the installers > based on the overall traffic numbers. > > * Remove cross-platform Linux installer due to lack of outbound traffic > relative to the content on the pages. > > Unless strenuous objection, my plan is to publish this prior to the > release.[1] > > > > And +1 for the other suggested changes.