Re: Notice about EDB downloads

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 8:54 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:

> > On 4 Nov 2021, at 18:00, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>
> > PFA a patch that adds a notice about the EDB downloads, clarifying that
> they are hosted separately from the rest of our infrastructure, and giving
> instructions for who to contact if there are issues with it.
> >
> > Prompted by the fact that we get a lot of bug reports and other error
> reports (some to the right and some to the wrong addresses for the rest of
> our website) when there are issues, that have to be passed on which both
> causes a bunch of manual work and a delay before the people who actually
> can fix something get it.
>
> That seems generally fine, I'm not convinced it will help with all the
> reports
> but it's about all we can do.
>

Oh I doubt it will help with all of them. But maybe with some. And it does
provide some info to the users.

While in there, could you also add the 14 release to the version tables on
> those pages? The 14 installer is available for download but the page make
> it
> seem like it's only 9.6-13 which isn't a good look.
>

We normally wait for the people who run that end to provide a patch for
that -- but that usually leaves us in just this situation, with things not
properly up to date

Perhaps we should see if EDB can provide a metadata file somewhere on the
site that we could scrape down regularly (say, daily) and have it automated?

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