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

Regards,
Michelle

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> john                                                                          
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