8.1.0.CR1: modify announcement, or add to download page

[hxp]

Hi Folks,

Great work on WildFly8.x -- but let's not confuse the newcomers

The announcements of 8.1.0.CR1 at the top of both

https://community.jboss.org/en/wildfly

https://community.jboss.org/en/jbossas7

contain the words:

As always you can download the release here:

http://wildfly.org/downloads/

But that is not (currently) true.

(Which means newcomers can get very confused…. and oldtimers can suffer needless frustration hunting down the right nightly and trawling JIRA for what's the holdup )

So I suggest modifying the announcements to reflect reality,

or publishing the downloadable artifacts at http://wildfly.org/downloads/ as advertised,

or at least more clearly pointing folks to the 8.1.0.CR1 build at:

WildFly-latest-master [Jenkins]

Anyway, looking forward to 8.1.0.Final -- these are exciting times.

[jaikiran]

The announcement is actually pointing to the correct place. However, it looks like the downloads page broke recently. There used to be a download link for 8.1.0.CR1. Give it a few hours and I'm sure someone from Red Hat team will notice this thread and work internally to fix it.

or at least more clearly pointing folks to the 8.1.0.CR1 build at:

WildFly-latest-master [Jenkins]

That is not a "release". It's just the latest nightly builds.

[ctomc]

Yeah Jaikiran is right, something happened with our downloads page.

I pinged guys that maintain it so it should be fixed soon.

in mean time you can use direct links

http://download.jboss.org/wildfly/8.1.0.CR1/wildfly-8.1.0.CR1.zip

http://download.jboss.org/wildfly/8.1.0.CR1/wildfly-8.1.0.CR1.tar.gz

sorry for inconvenience

--

tomaz

[hxp]

Hey Jaikiran and Tomaz,

That was quick; downloads are fixed.

It's been a long time since that 7.1.1.Final stable dependable community release...

so I've got high hopes and I'm pretty excited about 8.1.0.

And I bet I'm not alone in those hopes and that excitement.

So, from myself and probably many others --

Thanks for keeping the open flame alive for our JBoss/Wildfly community. You guys rock!