I can do that. But I would need a (minimal....VERY minimal as we are
close to the wire here) design from PPD.
PPD?
Bobby
On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Jared Rhine wrote:
Jared, any ideas on what the link should be? I know you wanted
something with a layer of indirection (i.e. a url that redirects
somewhere else...)
The indirection that I propose is an interstitial page on the server
side; ie, add one page to the Cosmo distro, but no real content.
The user clicks on the link. It takes them to a 1-pager hosted inside
Cosmo. The one-pager in Cosmo says essentially "sorry there's nothing
here yet. In the mean time, we have some fine on-line documentation
available at the OSAF wiki, http://blahblah.
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 10:11 -0800, Bobby Rullo wrote:
Sufficient for now at the very least, but the URL should have a
version # in it, so that people can get help for the version of Cosmo
they have.
This is a reasonable idea, until we don't need it anymore because the
docs ship with Cosmo. In the mean time, the link itself would go
locally, and the "link to OSAF wiki" inside that Cosmo page would
direct
to a new Projects/CosmoHelpZeroSix perhaps (probably with included
sections from the actual pages we want on that help landing page).
The reason the interstitial page makes sense from a software packaging
perspective if that packages are supposed to be standalone, and
essentially work on disconnected boxes. This is for off-the-network,
internal-only, test environments, installing old versions, etc.
But the
help button should still do *something* useful.
Serious implementers may want to replace the help documentation
entirely. I think it helps them to have at least 1 local page to
override as well, though overriding the URL sorta works for that use
case too.
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