On Dec 27, 2009, at 2:55 AM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > Hi Robert, > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Robert Bradshaw > <[email protected]> wrote: > > <SNIP> > >> I'm not so sure this is a good idea. First, the idea of segregating >> all development pages behind /devel raises the (psychological) >> barrier >> between using Sage and developing on it, which we try so hard to >> lower. Maybe this isn't a big issue, but such a large change probably >> shouldn't just happen without any discussion. >> >> Perhaps, more importantly, it looks like you broke *every* external >> link into the (now) /devel and /ReleaseTours pages. Given how much we >> use the wiki, and how much information is there, that is in my mind a >> bad thing... > > The pages can be restored to their former names if people think that's > necessary.
Please do. > Previously, the main wiki page was one big heap of links. > Over time, people keep adding more links to it. When one loads up the > main page, one is presented with a bunch of stuff that can look > intimidating to navigate. I have tried to keep a balance between > organization and presenting what's important on a first reading. Moving pages and invalidating urls (or even creating 100s of redirects, if that can be done) is orthogonal to cleanup like this (which I think is often overdue). And the dev page is good--it can point to the pages where they were just as well. - Robert -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
