cdimage.ubuntu.com is confusing

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 06:08:13PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> I'm noticing a lot of people being confused by cdimage.ubuntu.com. We have a
> releases directory, which includes "hoary" and "5.04", so people looking for
> the latest release, or who have heard about this brand new hoary thing tend
> to download it.
> 
>   http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/
> 
> Perhaps we could remove these from releases/ and have a development/ dir at
> the top level, rather like the current sounder-test/? So perhaps it could
> look like this:

To some extent this is why we created http://releases.ubuntu.com/;
especially your point about people just mirroring the releases.

>   code/
>   releases/
>     4.10/
>     warty -> 4.10/
>   development/
>     sounder/

I wouldn't mind doing that, although it kind of screws with
already-published links. I suppose we could fix that up with .htaccess.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]