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Please create separate landing pages per Python version #1693

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gvanrossum opened this issue Dec 1, 2020 · 0 comments
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Please create separate landing pages per Python version #1693

gvanrossum opened this issue Dec 1, 2020 · 0 comments

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@gvanrossum gvanrossum commented Dec 1, 2020

In Azure we support specific Python feature releases (currently 3.6, 3.7, 3.8). Users have their reasons to stick to a particular version. But we don't want to give them a choice about the bugfix release -- if they want 3.8, they should get the latest 3.8.x release (currently 3.8.6). In our docs (e.g. here) we'd like to link directly to the download page for each version. But here we have a slight problem, in that there is no landing page for "the latest 3.8 release" (that I know of or can find). So our doc team ended up linking to 3.8.2 (which was the latest at the time they wrote the docs) and never updated the link to point to 3.8.6.

On python.org we have a landing page for "the latest version" (currently 3.9.0) and "a specific version" (e.g. 3.8.2). Could you also add a landing page for "the latest bugfix release for 3.x"? E.g. for 3.8 this would currently refer the user to 3.8.6, but once 3.8.7 is released it would automatically point there. I'd prefer this not to be a redirect but just a page with some text that says e.g. "the latest version of 3.8 is 3.8.6, download it here". Ideally it would also list previous versions -- especially important when a release goes into maintenance mode, since in most cases users would rather download the latest binary release than attempt to download and build the latest source-only release themselves.

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