Hi again-- the OTHER Kay :) see way below...
Christian Lohmaier wrote:
Hi Mathias, *,
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:49:20AM +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote:
- Some project leads want to reduce the very strong separation between
users and contributors.
Agreed..
- OTOH there are concerns that the majority of people interested in OOo
are "pure" users and will stay so and they might get bored by content
more centred on contributors.
True as well.
- There is some demand that the application links on the start page
should point to project pages addressing both users and contributors.
And here the problem starts: The pages that shall be linked are not
available yet. (in a suitable presentation)
As
a compromise the current pages could link to the project pages. The
motivation was that the current project navigation is awkward and people
might never find e.g. the Calc project page.
Now things get mixed up/start to be confusing. What is awkward is
http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html
But the project pages that should have pointers to the devel-content are
these:
http://www.openoffice.org/product/index.html
[...]
My personal summary of this would be:
- Let's agree that we add a Chart link to the home page like the one to
Math as soon as the new chart is integrated into OOo. Of course we
already have a Chart module but I doubt that Ingrid will want to
document this one so IMHO it makes sense to wait a bit.
This is basically already agreed upon (with the premise that a page
exists that fits the other product pages).
- Let's agree to have links to the "other products" URE and SDK
somewhere on the home page. New pages have to be created before.
Agreed as well.
[redesign the project page http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html]
+1
Well I can not do anything about the omission of what's considered
products from the Home page beacause as others have pointed, suitable
links/pages have not yet been created. I will, as I've already said,
attempt to cobble something together for a new main project page and
provide a draft for feedback
...i.e
http://projects.openoffice.org/index.html
and hopefully have it integrate better with the development and
contributing areas.
I think we're all in agreement over these factors anyway.
Cheers!
Another point I would like to rise: could we have a more prominent link
to the "contribute" page, perhaps equally in visibility and size to the
"get OOo" or the "Native Language" button?
More prominent than in the toptabs?
I fear that with the "other projects" stuff the page will get crowded
again. IMHO it's better to have the contributing page linked from other
pages..
ciao
Christian
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