[News.eclipse.technology.packaging] Downloads page is confusing - questi

[Kevin McGuire <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi guys,

I'd like to be a good sport and try out the EPP projects because I think 
 they're a great idea.  But I find the EPP downloads page
http://www.eclipse.org/epp/download.php
confusing and I couldn't actually download what I was expecting I could.

Some comments:

1) Should be organized by project:

The reason that I went to this page is not that I care about every EPP, 
but that I care about a particular one. In this case, I was referred 
here by the webtools 3.4 M5 page
http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads/drops/R3.0/S-3.0M5-20080218021547/
that asks if folks could please try out the EPP project occassionally.

The resulting EPP page thus confused me initially because I was 
confronted with a table with build IDs along the top.  I'd suggest that 
there be a different build/download page for each packaging project to 
focus on the packaging the person cares about - less overwhealming and I 
could've been linked to the right spot from the webtools page.

2) Couldn't find the download:

If I click in the table on the topmost "Success" for say JEE, or any of 
the other successes, I get what appears to be the build result script. 
Where's the actual download?

3) Missing milestone granularity:

I really don't want to download a nightly build, what I'd like to 
download is something that represents a given milestone of the contained 
projects, just like I would for those individual projects.  That way 
there's at least a chance that it'll work, and there's something known 
to log bugs against. But the table only shows the last four autobuilds 
that only takes me back two days, and I didn't see an archive.

So in total the page was a complete failure for me, which is a shame.

The more we can increase the consumability of this page, the more we can 
increase use of the packaging projects prior to GA, which seems a good 
thing.

Cheers,
Kevin