On 2011-01-04 00:58:08 (-0500), Ricardo Chung <ricardo.a.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 03:06 +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote: > > Here is the current working draft: > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2940942/11.4/index.html > > > > Feedback please ;) > > > > And before you ask why it doesn't mention "11.4" or even > > "openSUSE" at all: well, that was the idea for previous > > counters, to not mention anything beyond the "X days left" to > > trigger people's curiosity. > > > > Obviously, from the release day on, the counter will indeed > > mention it's openSUSE 11.4 as well as our motto. > > I like the way it shows days left with geeko behind and nothing else. As > you said it will trigger people's curiosity to know what is coming up. > > Maybe it is possible to mention openSUSE a few days before and version > 11.4 the release day. What do you think ?
Can be done. The way it works, from a technical perspective is that I have SVG templates (one for each size, 400x400, 256x256, 130x130 and the wide one), and a Python script that assesses the current timestamp and how many days are left until the release. It then replaces placeholders in the SVGs and uses Inkscape to render them as PNGs in batch. Those PNGs are rendered once a day through a cron job and uploaded to counter.opensuse.org. So there is no problem to make another set of SVG templates that include a bit more information and which will be used automagically, e.g., one or two weeks before the release. It's already what happens when there are only a few hours left, it switches to other SVGs that say "T-XX", and obviously another SVG once the release is out. -- -o) Pascal Bleser <pascal.ble...@opensuse.org> /\\ http://opensuse.org -- I took the green pill _\_v FOSDEM XI: 5 + 6 Feb 2011, http://fosdem.org
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