[Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] Realease and blockers

[Vincent Picavet]

Hi,

Le vendredi 6 juin 2014 13:34:12, Alexander Bruy a écrit :
> 2014-06-06 13:16 GMT+03:00 Vincent Picavet <vincent.ml at oslandia.com>:
> > Could we make a more visible RC release on the website, encouraging
> > testing ?
> > 
> > I think that our user are not used yet to our new release cycle. We
> > really should educate them, and lower the barrier to RC testing and bug
> > reporting. As for now, even installing the RCs is complicated, so is bug
> > reporting.
> 
> We already have a big banner at main page about RC and testing. Seems most
> users don't visit main page too often to notice it.

I tried with a "standard" user yesterday, watching him use the site to get 
qgis, and it was still _very_ complicated for him. He expected to click on a 
"QGIS 2.4 preview download" button and the download to begin immediatly, which 
is far from happening.

Instead, the small RC link leads to a page with a lot of links, he had 
difficulties to find the preview release (not knowing what a "release candidate" 
is), hesitating with osgeo4w download, then being redirected once again on the 
same page, lost in the web page, finally finding a small link to a dull page 
listing a lot of files (what the hell is a md5sum file ?? what is this 2.3 
version ?? where is the preview ?), of which he finally chose a random exe and 
installed it. Even I was totally lost trying to get the right file.

I think we can do much better.

Then it is a matter of advertising the preview at large : official "call for 
testing" from qgis project on osgeo mailing lists, twitter, linkedin, and if 
possible on a qgis-news mailing list where we have gathered a lot of user 
beforehand (with their approval of course).

Vincent