Improve download page on the website
Based on some feedback from a potential customer:
The current download page is great, but only if you want to download GitLab CE. Downloads-ee is hard to fnid
- it should be clear where and how you can download GitLab EE
- we should discourage usage of non-LTS OS, like Ubuntu 15xx (Omnibus only supports LTS releases officially)
- inlude
apt-get update
as a step -
links should be underlined (see "entire script" link, which looks like the rest of the text) / obviousI did this here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/2f6d399ca7d034c616b78d48526bc5edb9e09304 - (not confirmed by me) In step #2 (closed), it’s
sudo dpkg -I gitlab.deb
, rather than withoutsudo
- the links to the packages on packages.gitlab.com now point to only CE, this should be different for EE
I also got feedback on packages.gitlab.com. The customer mentioned that it was very confusing to figure out which package to use and even hit a Rails error.
I also think we should move to a more simpler, white page, with bigger letters and more focus on the content. Maybe we can tackle this all together in a redesign.
Right now I did:
- update the page to have underlines for links in the text https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/2f6d399ca7d034c616b78d48526bc5edb9e09304
- add a link from /downloads to /downloads-ee: 936e86d2
- link from /features to /downloads-ee: c32c58f5
cc @lukebabb @philcamillo @marin @sytses