On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Eric Wasylishen <[email protected]> wrote: >> ok. We should probably mention 0.4.2 and possibly 0.4.3. I expect >> 0.4.2 at the beginning in the coming months (probably in July). > > Nice, I added your list for 0.4.2 and started one for 0.4.3 > >>> -Finally, I added "Events & Publications", >>> http://etoileos.com/eventspublications/. >> >> Very nice. You could add the following ones I think (David might have >> other suggestions too): >> - http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csdavec/papers/google.pdf >> - http://www.cs.swan.ac.uk/~csdavec/papers/languagekit.pdf >> - http://www.swan.ac.uk/compsci/research/reports/2008/CSR14-2008.pdf > > Nicolas suggested I also add a page with the embedded video for each > of our talks at the hackathon.
or one page per video maybe (putting both the video and the slides together). > >>> My current plans are: >>> - Start to use the sidebar for listing sub-pages in a section, rather >>> than filling the page body with those h2 headers which are also links >>> and verbose descriptions. This will leave more room on the page body >>> for actual content (I started to do this on http://etoileos.com/dev/) >>> Does this sound okay? >> >> I like the sidebar changes you did, but I'm not fully convinced the >> rest of the page is bad. I'm not saying it cannot be improved though. >> >> A relatively detailed map of the developer oriented content seems to >> be the most useful start page for a developer section. I tend to >> dislike most developer portals because you have a bunch of clicks to >> do when you want to access the actual content, or you cannot have a >> quick overview of the whole developer section or you have one but >> without short summaries and some links are then unclear. > > I agree, we want to minimize clicks to get to actual content, but also > provide descriptions for links that might not be clear. > >> What sort of actual content would be interesting? What me currently >> miss is perhaps Developer News and links to the core API references imo. > > For a new user clicking on "Development, ideally we have an > introduction to Etoile's architecture, languages, etc. There is a lot > that's different and interesting that we're doing, so I'd like to show > that off right away. > > For existing users/developers, having things in the menu makes it > easier to get directly to interesting pages. I think we will have > room in the sidebar to list each framework. > > >> At least, I'd like to keep somewhere the small descriptions which >> explain the purpose of each subsection… may be as tool tips on the >> sidebar links if they are listed here? > > That would be good. A lot of the links are self-explanatory in my > opinion (Coding Style, Compiling & Installing, Open Projects). > > >>> -Redo the /etoile section to mostly be about the "vision", with a bit >>> of a history section and a references section. There will links to >>> different sets of mockups, maybe with one page dedicated to the latest >>> agreed upon UI ideas? >> >> I think Vision should be on a different page and will probably need to >> be splitted on two or three pages. >> imo /etoile should keep a small overview with screenshots of Étoilé in >> its current state. This quick overview could have a very obvious link >> to the Vision page which explains every points of the quick overview >> with plenty of details. Each list entry in the quick overview could >> also be linked to specific parts in the Vision page(s). > > Sounds good. I think Vision (or "Goals") could be its own entry in the > top bar, because it's one of the most important parts of the site. I think so too. > >> Aside of that, the Features subsection of /etoile probably needs to be >> reworked a bit. > Agreed. > > Nicolas was saying to me on silc, if you're not following a project, > the things you look for first are: 1/ screenshots 2/ goals 3/ current > status 4/ download basically, 1/ what does that looks like 2/ what is it, what do they want to do 3/ where are they now 4/ I want to try it #1-#2 probably interchangeable and in fact closely related. #3 is imho well catered with the news page and the RSS stream of commits > which I think is good to keep in mind. > >> Thanks again to tackle this Eric :-) > > No problem, I think it will be worth the effort :) yes :) thanks! -- Nicolas Roard "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
