Opened 12 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
#19783 closed Bug (fixed)
The Download page lists Django 1.4.3 as the latest download, but the same page links to the tutorial for v1.6
Reported by: | Owned by: | nobody | |
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Component: | *.djangoproject.com | Version: | 1.4 |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Accepted | |
Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
I like to say that I'm fairly competent with Python, but having mostly designed desktop GUI applications, I did not have any experience with Django. Today I decided to give it a shot so I went to djangoproject.com web page.
In the top right there is the "Download" button which points to this page - https://www.djangoproject.com/download/. After having downloaded it (version 1.4.3 as it seems that it is generally encouraged to do so), I clicked the "See the installation guide for further instructions". The "Installation guide" is a link to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/install/ . Following that, I went to https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/ .
You're probably realizing what has happened by now. I spent an hour debugging and trying to figure out why is it that going to localhost/admin does not work and, with DEBUG = True, why do I get the 500 error? I even asked a question on SO. I see that "Let's look at what startproject has created" should give me a clue that something is wrong, but I think there should be more distinction made - at the very least, there should be two "Installation Guide" links on the Download page, one for the stable version and the other for the trunk version.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 12 years ago
Component: | Uncategorized → Djangoproject.com Web site |
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Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Accepted |
Type: | Uncategorized → Bug |
comment:3 by , 12 years ago
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | new → closed |
I changed the URL and added a warning.
You're right — this is annoying.
We were discussing yesterday the idea of a 'stable' version of the docs that would point to the latest release. That's probably the solution here.
The downloads page itself is a flatpage, editable by djangoproject.com admins.