[website-discuss] Get the source page needs improvements

[John Levon]

Click on Get the source and we come to:                                         
                                                                                
                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                  
http://opensolaris.org/os/get/                                                  
                                                                                
                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                  
Ah, I see the "clone the repositories" link. I'll click on that. This           
                                                                                
                  
gives me a list of project repos. Now, since I know Mercurial can do            
                                                                                
                  
http, I'll assume these paths can be passed to 'hg clone'. Nope.                
                                                                                
                  
(What is this link even for? It should point to opengrok at least.)             
                                                                                
                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                  
Hmm, go back. I see the page says this:                                         
                                                                                
                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                  
clone a Mercurial (hg) repository, use the following example command
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project is the name of the project and project-repo is the name of the          
                                                                                
                  
code repository:                                                                
                                                                                
                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                  
ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/hg/project/project-repo                                 
                                                                                
            
                                                                                
                                                                                
                  
Now, *if* I've somehow heard that the source I want (which is Nevada) is        
                                                                                
                  
called onnv, and I correctly assume that onnv-gate is the master source         
                                                                                
                  
when I looked at the link above previously, I might be able to work this        
                                                                                
                  
out. But it seems pretty hard.                                                  
                                                                                
                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                  
My suggestions:                                                                 
                                                                                
                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                  
- remove that 'clone the repositories' link. Replace it with a link to          
                                                                                
                  
  the list of projects and correctly label it as such.                          
                                                                                
                  
- add a prominent link to opengrok and label it as browse source                
                                                                                
                  
  history                                                                       
                                                                                
                  
- add a direct link to Nevada with a very brief explanation that that's         
                                                                                
                  
  what they probably want                                                       
                                                                                
                  
                                                                                
                                                                                
                  
regards                                                                         
                                                                                
                  
john                                                                            
                                                                                
                  
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