Hello, This is my first message on the list. I'm a darcs user since more than 1 year, and recently I have been contemplating using other DVCS software for my work. So, I tried Mercurial, Git and Bazaar, and in the process, I realised that darcs had obvious advantages that I had never been aware of.
So I gave a look at http://darcs.net and I thought the message delivererd could be clearer, and more focused on the user side than on the theoretical side. I have made a mockup of a new version of this page, I would like to know what you all think: http://progg.free.fr/doc/ The changes: * the text is slightly shorter * changed "smart" to "simple" (to me , the "smart" part is already explained in "interactive") * no mention to patch theory on the main page, this is moved to that page : http://progg.free.fr/doc/patch.html . My rationale: people don't care, and first of all they don't understand. Even I, as a darcs user, only understood what was cherry picking when I saw that the other DVCS systems didn't have it. * the "distributed" paragraph is now thought for CVS / SVN users, and gives practical advantages of DVCS over centralised ones. The current paragraph on darcs.net was never clear to me. * addition of the page http://progg.free.fr/doc/patch.html that really shows why darcs is superior in usability . OK the mockups are ugly, because I don't know how to make animations, but they give the idea. The "Branching and Merging" one is very important to me, because this is what disappointed me in the other systems (they make you create a merge patch). There is at last a mention and a link to patch theory explanation. Darcs' message is not clearly heard currently. The mockup here is essentially a proposal on the content of message than on it's form. Maybe also the visual shape of http://darcs.net can be improved. For instance http://xmonad.org has a nice new homepage. What do you think ? Guillaume _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
