[Nexus-developers] 4.3 rc download

[Tobias.Richter at diamond.ac.uk]

Hi Freddie,

Feel free to disagree, but I'd distribute release candidates more freely than exclusively to nexus-tech. A few more people doesn't harm and there is nothing else to fear really.Just the fact that there is visible activity is a good thing also.

You've now linked the NeXus_43_Testing page from two others, but the best thing I found was the Release (at that time with out a link to download). What would be further helpful is something more obvious. All of the links in the Installation section on the home page could link to a page that encourages interested people to try the release candidate. (But the wording would lead to faint of heart to the released version, of course.)
I'd even put some news banner on the home page, at least for the final release. The way it is designed now you could have returning customers to the website that never find out about new releases, upcoming meetings etc.

Regards,

Tobias

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From: nexus-developers-bounces at nexusformat.org [nexus-developers-bounces at nexusformat.org] on behalf of freddie.akeroyd at stfc.ac.uk [freddie.akeroyd at stfc.ac.uk]
Sent: 06 March 2012 12:03
To: nexus-developers at nexusformat.org
Subject: Re: [Nexus-developers] 4.3 rc download

Hi Tobias,

the release candidate has only been circulated to nexus-tech and does indeed need linking better from the main site. Which page did you find on the wiki? http://wiki.nexusformat.org/NeXus_43_Testing contains a link to the download page and the tarball download works there as far as I can tell

Regards,

Freddie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nexus-developers-bounces at nexusformat.org [mailto:nexus-
> developers-bounces at nexusformat.org] On Behalf Of
> Tobias.Richter at diamond.ac.uk
> Sent: 06 March 2012 10:31
> To: nexus-developers at nexusformat.org
> Subject: [Nexus-developers] 4.3 rc download
>
> There currently is no way to find out about the 4.3 release candidate
> from the www.nexusformat.org<http://www.nexusformat.org> website unless
> you dig very deep. Which you would only do when you know what you are
> looking for. After a bit of trying I am no longer sure there is a way
> to get to a tarball at all.
> That should be fixed I think. And maybe the website could do with being
> slightly less static.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tobias
>

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