Victory !!! http://projects.archlinux.org/archweb.git/commit/?id=7b2c16014837c0b134a7b902a0d2cc8db77f92b8
On Mon, 16 May 2011 22:22:30 +0200 Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 11:04:32 -0500 > Dan McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why on earth does the one person doing admin on this app even need a > > link for this? The admin is always at /admin/. We don't do this > > anywhere else, so I see no need to do it here... > > IMHO it's good practice to make these things explicit. I always > expect a web application to provide links for its subpages and > sections, it's mostly intuitive reasoning but I'll try to explain > some arguments. > > Say I do not do any Arch stuff for a year, and I forget the admin is > on /admin (or forget where any page is, for that matter), and then > when I get back in business, I can just look at the menu / links > section to see which pages exist and what I can do. [*]. I probably > won't really forget after only a year, but I like the "luxury" of not > _needing_ to remember (and hence needlessly occupy space in my > memory) these things. > > Also, say we add $new_dev to the releng group. > If the link is on the page for $new_dev to see, he can clearly > explore what he can do and will need little clarifications. If it's > not, we will definitely forget to mention it, and a month later > $new_dev will ask "hey, how do you change this or that? I have been > looking around but can't find it", then we need to reply with a link > to the admin section and a mention "do not forget this". then imagine > what happens if 2 more people join the releng team. > > or imagine what happens if somebody - without much django knowledge - > clones the project and wants to run his own archweb instance, is he > supposed to "just know"? I really don't get what's wrong with a > simple link to the admin section. > > > [*] Similarly, I know you have a stats page somewhere with network > traffic and such, but i always forget the url, and I don't think > there is a link to it (or at least not one clearly visible). I think > individual developers should not be expected to remember the url or > bookmark the page, rather a link should be made from > http://www.archlinux.org/devel/ > > Dieter
