Hi Dion, There's nothing to stop individual components from omitting the "generic" &viewmenu; menu and adding their own one that links specifically to the svn locations for that component. In fact, that would be a nice idea.
However most don't bother. And at the moment, I think the commons-level default &viewmenu; that most component pages do include doesn't give enough info; just two links to viewcvs. So users then go up to the jakarta-level version control info, at which point the info is *very* generic (including info about CVS that is irrelevant to commons). I can't see anything that can be done at the commons-build level to provide components with better version control access info than the patch I'm proposing. Regards, Simon On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 13:10 +1000, Dion Gillard wrote: > Do users of one component really care about the entirety of commons? > I'd rather see component specific info being more prominent than an > all-of-commons link which may be irrelevant. > > On 5/20/05, Simon Kitching <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Currently the commons site navbar (and all component navbars) have a > > "View SVN" entry with links to proper and sandbox via viewcvs: > > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/ > > > > I would like to enhance this a little. Here's a new version of the site > > containing an updated "View Source Code Repository" navbar entry: > > http://people.apache.org/~skitching/commons/site/ > > > > I would appreciate people's feedback on this. > > > > Please note: > > * this is still referred to by "&viewmenu;" so all components would > > get updated to this new section when they publish new sites. > > * the "general information" is an absolute URL so it works from > > child components. Obviously, however, it doesn't work now as the > > new page hasn't been put on the real site. Here's the link you > > need to use for the moment: > > http://people.apache.org/~skitching/commons/site/svninfo.html > > > > > > Regards, > > > > Simon > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
