Better release system

[intenscia]

At the moment we don't have a release system at all. We have a date people set (but it generally wrong) and connected downloads. I'm wondering if we change this to something like:

RELEASE:

• Upload files AND/OR
• Upload keys you can redeem the game via AND/OR
• Upload URLs / stores you can get them from

And each release contains a release date and optional changelog?

[feillyne]

It could use the current downloads system and new page types.

Download page types:

• releases/file
• alpha/beta/review keys (as a list, so devs can gift them only to specific members or groups on IndieDB/ModDB? or invite specific members, exclusively, without any keys, to participate in the alpha/beta tests?)
• URL/store widget
• flash/web plugin release (playable only after clicking the download page, not littering the main game page? optionally it could replace or be expanded to the whole width of a game profile not just the download/620px/standard width of the download page?)