By hestenet on
Change record status: 
Published (View all published change records)
Project: 
Drupal.org customizations
Issue links: 
https://www.drupal.org/node/2987842
Description: 

A primary goal of recent content strategy work on Drupal.org has been to ensure that different kinds of site visitors are sent down the appropriate persona-based funnel to find the right content for their needs. Evaluators are sent to case studies, agencies to sales materials, and developers to development tools. We want to ensure that this core audience of developers(or prospective developers) has easy access to download Drupal, so we will be updating the /download and /try-drupal pages.

The new urls for downloading Drupal core are:

Thanks to @grasmash for spearheading this effort

Production outage: No
Change affects: Drupal IA
Deployment schedule: The sprint from Aug 13 - Aug 26
Backout plan: revert or fix in place