On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 09:46 +0100, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > I have a couple of issues: > > 1) I don't think we should reference https here at all. Committers > should know what they are doing. (The danger is that a user picks the > first URL on the page without reading the text)\
I'm fine with putting the http: url first. I'd prefer to see the https: info still there; I think you're assuming a bit too much about committer knowledge of subversion. But I'll see what the consensus is... > > 2) Related (to the user picking the first URL), I suggest that the URL > should be of the full form for a project (named foo) right down to > trunk. Again, this will help people who just pickup the link and don't > read the text. Then, the rest of the page can explain other URLs, and > their purposes. How can this be done? The page here is just a static page within commons-build... Note that components are welcome to omit the &viewmenu; entry from their navigation.xml and instead insert specific information about their particular project. But right now most just inherit the static info defined in commons-build/menus/view.ent, and I'd like that default to be better than the current... Thanks for your feedback! Regards, Simon -- A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion Q. Why is top posting bad? > Simon Kitching 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]
