Bug 1195 - Please update www.workrave.org/download to point to the latest tarballs
Status:
NEW
Component:
WWW
Version:
daily
Hardware:
All All
Importance:
P5 major
Target Milestone:
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Assignee:
Raymond Penners
URL:
Depends on:
Blocks:
Reported:
Feb 22 2015 02:36:12 UTC
by:
Jason Spiro
Modified:
Nov 17 2019 17:40:51 UTC
CC List:
Filipus Klutiero
Rob Caelers
WhoWhenWhatRemovedAdded
Jason SpiroJul 6 2015 20:13:57 UTCccRob Caelers
Filipus KlutieroJan 16 2019 20:01:21 UTCccFilipus Klutiero
Jason SpiroFeb 4 2019 14:29:52 UTCseveritynormalmajor
Description
Jason Spiro  Feb 22 2015 02:36:12 UTC
Hi!  I found http://www.workrave.org/download/ -- a page which lets users download Workrave.

It would be great if you could please update the middle link to point to https://github.com/rcaelers/workrave/archive/v1_10_6.tar.gz and the rightmost link to point to https://github.com/rcaelers/workrave/releases so that people could easily grab the latest tarballs.

Thank you!
Comment 1
Jason Spiro  Feb 22 2015 02:55:11 UTC
And if you could please also do two more things:

1.  Update the leftmost link to point to http://sourceforge.net/projects/workrave/files/workrave/1.10.1/workrave-win32-v1.10.1-installer.exe/download

2.  Add some text to the bottom:  "Note:  Our latest Windows installer is somewhat old.  If you'd like a newer one, contact us by clicking the Support link above.  Or you can build your own:  see https://github.com/rcaelers/workrave/blob/master/README#L10 for more information."
Comment 2
Jason Spiro  Jul 6 2015 20:13:57 UTC
Dear rcaelers:

CC'ing you.

1.  If I may ask:  Is Raymond still active?

2.  If not, and if you don't want to handle this, maybe I could do so instead.  I would probably first need permissions to write to the webserver directory that holds http://www.workrave.org/ though.  My SourceForge account is <http://sourceforge.net/u/jasonspiro>.  Interested?

Cheers!
Comment 3
Rob Caelers  Dec 23 2015 18:44:13 UTC
Raymond is no longer working on Workrave, but still maintains the website.

I want to move the downloads to github.
Comment 4
Filipus Klutiero  Jan 16 2019 20:01:21 UTC
This issue's importance should be increased. I am bachelor of computer science and had been using Workrave 1.10.0 for 2 years before realizing this issue. SourceForge statistics show there are over 1000 downloads every week of versions which have been obsolete for 5 years.
Comment 5
Jason Spiro  Feb 4 2019 14:29:52 UTC
(In reply to chealer from comment #4)
> This issue's importance should be increased. I am bachelor of computer
> science and had been using Workrave 1.10.0 for 2 years before realizing this
> issue. SourceForge statistics show there are over 1000 downloads every week
> of versions which have been obsolete for 5 years.

Good idea; I've bumped the severity to "major".  But this doesn't guarantee that the problem will be resolved.

rcaelers, I see at <https://sourceforge.net/p/workrave/_members/> that you're an admin of the SourceForge project.  Are you willing to take over maintenance of the website, since Raymond seems to have abandoned it and seems to be ignoring bugmail?

If not, then chealer, are you willing to take over the website?
Comment 6
Rob Caelers  Feb 5 2019 17:14:15 UTC
Hi,

I will ask Raymond to change to download link to github.

Most of the changes since 1.10 are Linux only. Not much has changed on the Windows side since 1.10
Comment 7
Filipus Klutiero  Nov 17 2019 17:40:51 UTC
See also https://issues.workrave.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1304