Tim Sutton via QGIS-User <qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> writes: > 🥳 The new website is now online! Visit https://qgis.org to try it out. We > have spent a *lot* of time trying to QA things but undoubtedly there will > still be some *gremlins* in the works. Please file issues here > <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Hugo/issues> if you find things that are > *substantive* issues (i.e. a broken link, spelling error) and not 'reviews' > of our work please. If you have other comments or suggestions for > improvements, we much prefer that they be accompanied by *PR's* which > implement your proposed improvements to keep our workload down and the > issue queue short.
I'm writing here because I'm having a hard time sorting "substantive" being spelling with serious content issues not. I have a lot of comments but I think the above would sort them into things that are not clearly micro bugs. There is a "download" button and it says "Available on Windows, Mac, Linux". This is fundamentally off, in that qgis being an open-source program the primary product is source code. I get it that many people want pre-built binaries. Specific issues: it should be clear that source is available, to anyone who perceives any ability to download anything the path to getting sources should show sources first. For those who want to skip them, that's easy. Specific suggestion: Change the text to say Source code, and pre-built binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows. At https://qgis.org/download/ I am offered big buttons for windows binaries, despite my browser sending NetBSD as the operating system. I don't know if this is coded for unrecognized goes to windows, but if so that's a bug. The statement about platforms says "QGIS is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS." But, there is source code which builds on NetBSD (packaged in pkgsrc) and there is a link for FreeBSD. the source links are the same kind of https://qgis.org/downloads/qgis-latest.tar.bz2 as before. This is a bug because it leads to qgis-latest.tar.bz2 on the user's system, instead of the file with the version number.7 The link to the entire directory of source tarballs is either missing or well hidden. The statement that qgis is available on Android and iOS is incorrect. What's available are things like QField and Mergin. I don't mean to knock those programs - I use QField and find it very useful. But it is not qgis on Android. It's not clear which third-party apps are going to be listed. Overall, there should not be a statement that qgis is available on mobile, and the mobile section should say "QGIS-ecosystem apps for mobile" and then people would get the right impression. The elephant in the room remains. As I understand it, QField uses qgis code, and qgis is GPL. The ios app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/qfield-for-qgis/id1531726814 says that is is Copyright opengis.ch, but there is no statment that it's available under the GPL, and apple's app store terms, as I read them, prohibit the recipient from copying/modifying/redistributing. I really do not understand what's going on. Greg _______________________________________________ QGIS-User mailing list QGIS-User@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
