Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs home page updated
Simon It does discuss both camp and darcs. I meant to say the following: Simon I was happy to be able to use Ian Lynagh's video, which I have always Simon felt strikes a very good tone - technical, concise, grounded and Simon energising. I like listening to it. Thanks Ian! Indeed, the form, duration and pace are all very good in this video. However, if I understand correctly, your initiative mainly targets potential newcomers. I am not sure they will understand the connection here, and they will quickly ask how to display the patches DAG in darcs. Also, from a communication POV, the title of the video does not match well with the date of the video ( we are on darcs.net and the video is why we continue to develop Camp and is from 2008 :] ) I don't dismiss the great work on this camp video itself. It is just that if some darcs user has time to make a 2012 darcs video (name hit : darcs vs git), based on the same idea, that would probably be more suited for darcs website. regards, -- Paul ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
[Haskell-cafe] Darcs home page updated
With 2.8 released, I felt Darcs deserves better presentation. After surveying other VCS sites I worked on an update to our home page layout and content over the last few days, with review and input from #darcs, and it went live last night. It's far from perfect but I hope it's a good step forward. Thanks for the input, and have at it: http://darcs.net -Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs home page updated
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:27:57 -0700, Simon Michael si...@joyful.com said: Simon With 2.8 released, I felt Darcs deserves better presentation. After Simon surveying other VCS sites I worked on an update to our home page Simon layout and content over the last few days, with review and input from Simon #darcs, and it went live last night. It's far from perfect but I hope Simon it's a good step forward. Thanks for the input, and have at it: Simon http://darcs.net Hi, that looks good, thanks. Here are some ideas : - The purple color of titles is not very attractive, changing it to something more saturated would make it look fresher. - the purple color rounded box is not very attractive either :) - there is a video right on the first page, good ! Unfortunatly, it is not showing darcs but its cousin. Also, the title is why do we continue to develop ... [camp], which isn't the most positive approach one can expect on a start page - the compact tutorial is great, I love it. It deserves more poish. For inspiration, one can have a look at this website for example : http://gembundler.com/ - underlined links looks a bit 90's. You can add a simple css rule to choose an other color and remove the underline (though it is good practice to set it on mouseover) cheers, -- Paul ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs home page updated
On 04/30/12 15:27, Simon Michael wrote: With 2.8 released, I felt Darcs deserves better presentation. After surveying other VCS sites I worked on an update to our home page layout and content over the last few days, with review and input from #darcs, and it went live last night. It's far from perfect but I hope it's a good step forward. Thanks for the input, and have at it: http://darcs.net Maybe use some other repo for the hello world example? $ darcs get http://darcs.net darcs is too many darc. Using darcs to check out darcs and commit a file named darcs.cabal just conflates too many things unnecessarily. ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Darcs home page updated
Thanks for the feedback Paul (and Michael), all such is very useful. Maybe I'll try Django-green... :) - there is a video right on the first page, good ! Unfortunatly, it is not showing darcs but its cousin. Also, the title is why do we continue to develop ... [camp], which isn't the most positive approach one can expect on a start page It does discuss both camp and darcs. I meant to say the following: I was happy to be able to use Ian Lynagh's video, which I have always felt strikes a very good tone - technical, concise, grounded and energising. I like listening to it. Thanks Ian! Also, there isn't a lot out there to work with. Please let me know if I'm missing something else good. - the compact tutorial is great, I love it. It deserves more poish. For inspiration, one can have a look at this website for example : Good to hear, I have scheduled more polish. - underlined links looks a bit 90's. You can add a simple css rule to choose an other color and remove the underline (though it is good practice to set it on mouseover) Oh I thought underline had come back in. Ok done. A few more notes trimmed from the original mail: - I've tried to emphasise the relative simplicity Darcs offers. I think this is a true strength and our biggest value proposition. (Aside: I think Haskell is another true strength, but a less obvious one, currently not mentioned.) - You may notice my very swift description of patch dependencies. Though we are used to thinking of patch deps as painful, I think the text is a fair and accurate high-level description for newcomers. The video gives a little more insight. - Like some other sites (I liked Mercurial's best), we have quick start examples right on the front page. This grew a bit long, but how handy to be able to jump to darcs.net and instantly see how to get stuff done.. and its basically *all you need to know* to use Darcs, correct me if I'm wrong. - The colours are a bit anaemic. Needs more red and dark tones. The dark pres I tried gave less contrast.. - I use and occasionally hack on Alex Suraci's darcsden repo-hosting app. You can see my dev repo and changes at http://joyful.com/darcsden/simon/darcs-sm , and you might even be able to register, fork, show previews and send pull requests there - testers welcome. Perhaps one day this could be on darcs.net, or a reliable funded darcsden.com, or something. Best - Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
