Re: misleading description on Wireshark Download page

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

It's easy enough to disable the "Development Release" section of the
download widget until a development snapshot or release candidate is
ready. We could also replace the download list with a link to
http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/ but that would require a
bit of navigation on the part of the user.


On 11/7/11 8:39 AM, Jaap Keuter wrote:
> It seems as if the model of 'just hold off the new development release
> until That New Feature(sm) (the next best thing after sliced bread) is
> in' doesn't really work.
> Like you said we opted to wait for the multi-interface capture to be in,
> and even though Irene is working hard on it, it hasn't materialized in
> solid form just yet.
>
> In practice the development release becomes stale as soon as the next
> branch comes out, and remain so until the next one is about to come along.
> So what to do? I say, remove the development pane with a new branch, and
> restore it once we have really something new to show, like a genuine RC.
> In the mean time, development builds (at the bleeding edge) remain
> available, so for the persistent ones there's always new stuff available.
>
> Gerald, I know this makes your release TODO list yet another item
> longer, something you don't like. I am sorry about that, maybe I've got
> some suggestions about that later.
>
> Thanks,
> Jaap
>
> On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:07:44 -0700, Gerald Combs wrote:
>
> > Excellent question. We were holding off on making a development release
> > over the summer until the multi-interface capture support settled down.
> > Is there any reason to delay 1.7.0 at this point?
> >
> > On 11/2/11 12:51 AM, Dirk Jagdmann wrote:
> >
> > > So today somebody at my company wanted to check the latest Wireshark.
> > > Looking at http://www.wireshark.org/download.html [1] he read the
> > > description literally which said that the 1.6.0rc2 is the latest
> > > development release. So he figured it might be newer than the fresh
> > > 1.6.3 release... I think we can remove that old release candidate, or
> > > alternatively put a daily/weekly tarball of trunk on that page. --->
> > > Dirk Jagdmann ^ doj / cubic ----> http://cubic.org/~doj [2] ----->
> > > http://llg.cubic.org [3]
>
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