Ruth, first of all, thanks for taking the time out of your busy day to do this, but I
fear that we need to call a "Time Out" and
recalibrate the direction you went with your offering. There are a bunch of
changes here around an agenda that I've repeatedly
mentioned does not seem to be inline with what the project generally pushes for
development - so let's step back and look at this
requirement the way we originally discussed it - to document what we have not
to change it all around.
Comments inline
Cheers,
Ruppert
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Tim Ruppert
HotWax Media
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On Dec 9, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Ruth Hoffman wrote:
Hi Tim et al:
First, I'm not sure I know what the difference is between the column labeled
"Nightly Trunk Builds" and the one labeled
"Archived Trunk Builds". Why both?
Well one is of the trunk - and one is of the trunk every month for the entire
time we've been doing this. This is common
functionality for many projects - that's why we do both. Check out the
branches page for hte
OK, but not to get hung up on that...here's my first go-round at suggested
changes:
For starters, how about something like the following:
1) Change the big download button on the right of the page to point to the
latest nightly 9.04 release build. (Not the trunk
build). Also, change the text on that button from "DOWNLOAD OFBIZ" to: "New Users
DOWNLOAD OFBIZ Here!".
I'd like to keep the main download as the trunk with better directions to
getting the 9.04 release from this main page. Button
text is too large to be graphically pleasing in any way. Let's figure another
way to make this clear.
2) Change the "OFBiz Nightly Trunk Releases" heading to:
"OFBiz Nightly Release Builds"
This is committed and posted with some mods. I'm going to change the main page
to OFBiz Nightly Builds (since not both are
releases) and changed the branch page to OFBiz Nightly Release Builds (since it
only has releases) if that makes it more clear
for you
3) Swap the "Nightly Trunk Builds" column with the "Nightly Release 9.04 Builds" column
so that "Nightly Release 9.04 Builds"
may be easily seen by new users.
Again - they're both at the top of the page and I do not think this is a good
idea.
4) Under the "Nightly Release 9.04 Builds" column, put something like the
following:
[Recommended for new users.
I don't agree without more information about them and how they're going to use
it.
The most stable code base.
+1 there.
All current stable features.
That's likely not true that all features are stable - but those are the breaks.
The best option for getting community help.]
I think this is absolutely not true.
For now, I've changed this information to the following - we can adjust it to
something more when we agree:
"The most current release of OFBiz and the most stable platform for production
deployments."
Also, only list 5 or so links. Add a link to list other, older builds after the
5 most recent.
Done - let's try 10 first and see what we think - but 5 is too little (I
checked it out).
5) Under the "Nightly Trunk Builds" column, put something like the following:
[Recommended for project committers and those who want the latest and greatest
code. May not be as stable as the 9.04 nightly
release builds.]
Done
Also, only list 5 or so recent links. Add a link to list other, older builds
after the 5 most recent.]
Done - 10 for now except archives - 5 is too little - especially for archives.
6) Under the "Nightly Release 4.0 Builds" column, put something like the
following:
[Recommended for (legacy) compatibility with earlier releases of OFBiz.
Not recommended for new development where compatibility with the 9.04 release
is desired.
Note: support for Release 4.0 builds may be difficult to find and hence this
release is not recommended for new users.]
Done
Also, only list 5 or so recent links. Add a link to list other, older builds
after the 5 most recent.
Done - 10 for now except archives - 5 is too little - especially for archives.
I'd like to see how those changes look. That might be enough to minimize any
confusion.
For the descriptions, I'd focus on cleaning up the "What you get?" area for
further clarification
TIA
Ruth
