Re: [Launchpad-users] Stable and preview release numbering on launchpad.net

[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Shirish.  I'm not sure who the right person might be to answer  
your questions.  I'll ask Matthew Revell to give it a try though.   
Matthew, would you be willing to field these?

Thank you for your interest, Shirish.

Gary

On Aug 1, 2009, at 10:32 AM, shirish wrote:

> some addition :-
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 19:30, shirish<shirishag75@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Additional info. needed :-
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 19:09, shirish<shirishag75@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >      I am writing a blog post which has Launchpad reference. While
> > > looking at the wikipedia entry I realized that some of the data was
> > > not recent. One of which was the reference about Launchpad stable  
> > > and
> > > preview version. Looking at Launchpad I realized there is no way to
> > > know (casually) what version of Launchpad we are running. Had to  
> > > go to
> > > https://edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-project and then know what was
> > > the last release announced.
>
> Also saw all the milestone pages and its a jungle out there.
> https://edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestones
>
> You can see only two types of summaries, not yet released and inactive
> milestone. Shouldn't there be more summaries, something to the lines
> of stable releases and edge/unstable releases. (I'm thinking which
> could also be tagged later on or something. )
>
> > > Still do not know if the preview version which I've put up on the
> > > wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchpad_(website)  
> > > is ok
> > > or not.
> >
> > Adding to that, the homepage launchpad.net doesn't tell statistics
> > such as number of registered users. This should also be mentioned
> > somewhere.
> >
> > One of the other things is I'm hoping that launchpad has partnerships
> > with content delivery network (CDN's) around the world.
> >
> > If so, is there information about which CDN Launcpad uses and roughly
> > how many mirrors are doing it for them ?
> >
> > > Also, if somebody can add something to the introduction (in the  
> > > wikipedia article which satisfies the norms of wikipedia), as it  
> > > seems
> > > the introduction is not so good atm.
>
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