Hi Alan, Thanks for taking 15 mins to review, much appreciated, my comments inline.
On 11/17/08 16:58, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Michelle Olson wrote: > >> Finally, I've added new buttons for four tasks that we want >> developers to complete with ease, but which aren't easily found on the >> front page currently (Install, Join a User Group, Contribute a Package, >> and Report a Bug). >> > > Install blurs the line between OpenSolaris.org the code community and > OpenSolaris.com the distro community - are we moving away from that > distinction? I'm not moving away from any distinctions I haven't ever subscribed to :) But seriously, I can't act on what you say here, the word 'install' doesn't blur any lines all by itself, so it must be the target of the link that needs fixing? If so, let's discuss what should be found at the link target. > (Will other distros complain that "Install" is only > the Sun distro and not Belenix, Milax, etc. that are pointed to > from the current large Download icon or the new feature spot?) > If we decide that a landing page for install is needed to enable folks to find stuff and get things done with less confusion, then I'll mock one up. But let's not use this space to make conversation about what people might complain about because I can't make good decisions about the content that way. If folks have complaints, they just complain during review and then I know and make changes before we go live. > Are the Contribute a Package instructions ready for such prominent > exposure? Fair question, and precisely the point of this review. > That page has more questions than answers, (and the answers > it has are confusing in steps - you don't build a webrev, Is this specifically about the word 'build' or is there a bigger issue here? > and I don't > think pkg.opensolaris.org/myusername works at all) Right, do you know of an equivalent step or set of steps? > and only really > tells them how to host packages if they have a dedicated repository > server set up somewhere, Now you've lost me in the parenthetical above. Do you mean to say that /myusername tells someone how to post packages if folks have a dedicated repo set up somewhere? > not how to contribute to the pkg.opensolaris.org > repository, So, we need the contribute process steps sorted out? I'm watching Jim Walker and Shawn and others discussing this, so I aim to sync up this draft page with the process they author on genunix. > which isn't accepting direct contributions yet. > Right, nor will it, from what I understand, there will be a process for pending and contrib that won't be direct. > Report a Bug just dumps you on the bugzilla front page, which as someone > pointed out last week, is really a horrible place to start, leaving you > with no clue how to report bugs - the page Dave Miner made for the 2008.11 > release candidates would be a much better place to link to: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/resources/reporting_bugs/ > I'm not sure that I agree that this page about reporting bugs on 2008.11 is a better/simpler/easier place to land at all if you're starting from the home page of opensolaris.org. Do we have more data than one person's opinion? I'm sure we can find a middle-ground that is better than the bugzilla front page and less ovewhelming than the reporting_bugs page. Regards, Michelle _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
