Hi Brian, Thanks for this feedback, my comments inline.
Brian Utterback wrote: > When I look at the page entitled "Get the Source for OpenSolaris", I > notice that the very first link in the test says "download the > complete codebase". Okay, if I want to download the OpenSolaris > source, I am going to come to this page. Then I am going to click on > this link. So what happens then? > I'll work on fixing the link text here, it is at least part of the problem. What if it said "find links to all the major source code consolidations" instead? I'm open to ideas. > What happens is it takes you to the regular opensolaris.org download > page, which has no links at all that mention source code, except one > that takes you back to the previous page. The one place that source > code is actually mentioned is to get the source for the man pages. > Agreed, all of the big consolidations of source code are linked here, below the listing of all the binaries and it is just getting too long to make sense. I talked with Bonnie about it this morning and we will soon also need to grapple more with providing information about how to get the source associated with a specific binary as well...so it will get more loaded if we don't refactor the content of the Downloads page. > Now assuming I know that what I am looking for is the source for > Nevada, aka the ON consolidation, I might click on the link that says > "Operating System/Networking (ON)". This takes me to a page called > "Operating System/Networking (ON) Download Center". When you get to > the bottom of this page there is finally a section called "Where can I > get the source and other tar files?" and in this section there are > several options that will finally get you the source code. > Right, and this source code is useful for a certain audience, but not equivalent to what some of our other developer audiences will be looking for (which is Alan's point, I think). > This seems a little difficult to follow considering that you started > on a page that says it is the place to go to get the source. > Agreed, I appreciate your time to describe your experience with the newer pages. Regards, Michelle _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
