Re: [Python-Dev] SourceForge Download Page, Subversion Home Page

2006-01-29 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 19:46 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

> Barry Warsaw favours Jira as a tracker.

Still do!  At at one time the Atlassian folks offered to help us import
the SF tracker data into Jira if we could get a machine readable
(hopefully XML-ish) dump of the current SF tracker data.  I don't know
if that offer still stands, but if Jira were in the running I would
contact them again about it.

-Barry



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Re: [Python-Dev] SourceForge Download Page, Subversion Home Page

2006-01-28 Thread Joe Smith

"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> You may be aware that Tim Parkin's work on our "next-generation" web
> presence has borne fruit in the shape of beta.python.org. While there's
> still a lot to be done Tim has given us a great start by creating a
> framework that makes it rather easier to manage content.
>

For the record, I'm just a user of the language. However, I tend to prefer 
the current site design over the new one.
But I also felt the same way when the Mozilla.org site was updated to be 
more 'friendly' (quite a while ago), and
have learned to live with it, so it is not a major problem.


>
> There's the further issue that the entire HTML body of
> http://svn.python.org/ currently reads
>
> 
>
> It would seem like the logical place to have pointers to Subversion
> software (downloads, documentation, operating instructions) together
> with an *annotated* summary of http://svn.python.org/projects/ and links
> back to the main developer site at the very least. I'm not even sure
> where that web content is under SVN control at the moment.

Also If there is any sort of webcvs software running, it may be ice to link 
to it from that page. 


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Re: [Python-Dev] SourceForge Download Page, Subversion Home Page

2006-01-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> instead of spending more time and creativity on a sourceforge account
> that's only used for tracking, how about moving the trackers to python.org ?

That's an old plan. It failed so far because no volunteer ever appeared
to make it happen (actually, some did appear, but didn't actually make
it happen).

Notice that any such moving would have to carry over the existing
tracker items; any volunteer should be available for hand-holding after
the move occurs. Groups of people would be better than individual
volunteers.

> there are at least two "powered-by-python" alternatives that are vastly
> better than source-forge's tracker: roundup, which just went 1.0:
> 
> http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup/1.0

Guido's preference is on roundup.

> and trac,
> 
> http://www.edgewall.com/trac/
> 
> which almost everyone is using these days...

Barry Warsaw favours Jira as a tracker.

Regards,
Martin
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Re: [Python-Dev] SourceForge Download Page, Subversion Home Page

2006-01-28 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Sorry, no HTML allowed there.
>
> I created a support request to change/remove the button at
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1417298&group_id=1&atid=21

instead of spending more time and creativity on a sourceforge account
that's only used for tracking, how about moving the trackers to python.org ?

there are at least two "powered-by-python" alternatives that are vastly
better than source-forge's tracker: roundup, which just went 1.0:

http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup/1.0

and trac,

http://www.edgewall.com/trac/

which almost everyone is using these days...





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Re: [Python-Dev] SourceForge Download Page, Subversion Home Page

2006-01-28 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Nick Coghlan wrote:
> Is it possible to make that URL a hyperlink?

No, all HTML gets stripped/quoted as text.

> " The Python programming language, an object-oriented scripting and rapid 
> application development language.
> Despite what the green button below says, you can NOT download it 
> directly from Sourceforge, as SF is used only for bug tracking. You can get 
> releases from the main Python website:

Sorry, no HTML allowed there.

I created a support request to change/remove the button at

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1417298&group_id=1&atid=21

Regards,
Martin
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Re: [Python-Dev] SourceForge Download Page, Subversion Home Page

2006-01-27 Thread Nick Coghlan
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Tim Peters wrote:
>> Overall I'm not sure that's an improvement, but it was the best I
>> could come up with 2 years ago when ZODB stopped using SF for
>> downloads.
> 
> Please take a look at my attempt to solve that: putting a text just
> above the button.

Is it possible to make that URL a hyperlink?

It's also worth considering ways to make the alternate URL stand out more, as 
the green button is dominant enough that I'd expect a lot of people to miss 
the preceding text.

Something like:

" The Python programming language, an object-oriented scripting and rapid 
application development language.
Despite what the green button below says, you can NOT download it 
directly from Sourceforge, as SF is used only for bug tracking. You can get 
releases from the main Python website:

http://www.python.org/download";>Download from python.org


"

Cheers,
Nick.

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Re: [Python-Dev] SourceForge Download Page, Subversion Home Page

2006-01-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Tim Peters wrote:
> Overall I'm not sure that's an improvement, but it was the best I
> could come up with 2 years ago when ZODB stopped using SF for
> downloads.

Please take a look at my attempt to solve that: putting a text just
above the button.

Regards,
Martin
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Re: [Python-Dev] SourceForge Download Page, Subversion Home Page

2006-01-27 Thread Thomas Wouters
On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:49:59AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:

> If you go to
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/zodb/
> 
> you'll see the equally prominent "Download ZODB and ZEO" button,
> pointing to that project's equally ZODB-free Files area.  But, in that
> case, you'll see that there _is_ a package, named README, with a
> "release" named "How to get the source".  If you click on that and
> fight your way through the download process, you eventually end up
> with file "zodb.txt", which contains a real download URL for ZODB
> .
> 
> Overall I'm not sure that's an improvement, but it was the best I
> could come up with 2 years ago when ZODB stopped using SF for
> downloads.

What if the package wasn't named README, but rather
'www.python.org' with a release named "visit www.python.org/download
instead"? I'm not sure if that package/release name is allowed ;P

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Re: [Python-Dev] SourceForge Download Page, Subversion Home Page

2006-01-27 Thread Tim Peters
[Steve Holden]
> Is there any way to affect the target of the very prominent "Download
> Python" link on
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/python/ ?
>
> I ask because the link currently takes you to a page whose title is
> "Exiting with Error" and whose content is largely "No File Packages".
> While it's not where you arrive from a Google search for "python
> download" it is nevertheless a legitimate way (just now) to approach the
> project, and should therefore really be live.
>
> Is there any chance some SF admin could point it to
>
>  http://www.python.org/download/

Sorry, looks like SF auto-creates the download "button", hardwired to
the project's SF "Files" section.  The Python project doesn't have any
files on SF anymore.

If you go to

http://sourceforge.net/projects/zodb/

you'll see the equally prominent "Download ZODB and ZEO" button,
pointing to that project's equally ZODB-free Files area.  But, in that
case, you'll see that there _is_ a package, named README, with a
"release" named "How to get the source".  If you click on that and
fight your way through the download process, you eventually end up
with file "zodb.txt", which contains a real download URL for ZODB
.

Overall I'm not sure that's an improvement, but it was the best I
could come up with 2 years ago when ZODB stopped using SF for
downloads.
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[Python-Dev] SourceForge Download Page, Subversion Home Page

2006-01-27 Thread Steve Holden
You may be aware that Tim Parkin's work on our "next-generation" web 
presence has borne fruit in the shape of beta.python.org. While there's 
still a lot to be done Tim has given us a great start by creating a 
framework that makes it rather easier to manage content.

I'm just starting to work on the beta site content, and this is causing 
some examination of the existing web content. Is there any way to affect 
the target of the very prominent "Download Python" link on 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/python/ ?

I ask because the link currently takes you to a page whose title is 
"Exiting with Error" and whose content is largely "No File Packages". 
While it's not where you arrive from a Google search for "python 
download" it is nevertheless a legitimate way (just now) to approach the 
project, and should therefore really be live.

Is there any chance some SF admin could point it to

 http://www.python.org/download/

There's the further issue that the entire HTML body of 
http://svn.python.org/ currently reads



It would seem like the logical place to have pointers to Subversion 
software (downloads, documentation, operating instructions) together 
with an *annotated* summary of http://svn.python.org/projects/ and links 
back to the main developer site at the very least. I'm not even sure 
where that web content is under SVN control at the moment.

The web revision is going to lead to several of these kinds of 
discussions. I'll try to only spill on to the python-dev list what 
impinges on developers. Your opinions on these specific issues are 
probably the most significant.

[pydotorgers: let's try not to spam python-dev with any discussions]

regards
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