Hi,
In addition to these suggestions, how about using a special background
color for package landing pages in devel?
Cheers,
H.
On 07/21/2014 07:32 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
Or an unobtrusive notification box that drops down from the top of the
page, saying something like this is devel; there would be a dismiss
button and a checkbox for whether to show again. The user is free to simply
ignore it and proceed as normal.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Vincent Carey st...@channing.harvard.edu
wrote:
how about a tooltip that reads installation via biocLite() is the
recommended approach to Bioconductor software
acquisition, other approaches may lead to inconsistent package-sets that
appears when a reader hovers over a tarball. i would imagine that this is
how the wrong package gets installed, by manually using an inappropriate
tarball.
wrong documentation is not so easy but the doc on the devel branch might
have a different tooltip cautioning the readers to be sure they want to
read the doc on the devel version.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Julian Gehring julian.gehr...@embl.de
wrote:
Hi,
Can we make the package websites for the devel and release version of a
package more distinguishable?
To elaborate on this: In the past, I have seen several users having
problems with using bioconductor because they ended up on the wrong page
(mostly the devel page when they would have needed the release). This
resulted in getting the wrong documentation or installing the wrong
package. The pages are well designed, and there is no reason to change
this. However, the websites for the devel and release version of a
package
look almost identical, and that these two get confused seems to happen to
many users (me included).
If you search for a package within the bioc website, the release version
always comes first in the search results. If you are coming from the
outside (e.g. google), this may not be the case. In fact, googling a few
packages names often returned only the devel page in the top 10 search
results.
What are the feelings regarding this? We could add a header section on
the
devel page that states that this is an unstable version not meant to be
used in production settings, and provide a link to the respective release
version?
Best wishes
Julian
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