Nadya, What do you think about renaming "Community"->"Who we are" reference on the first page with "Committers"? I think this would be more direct and less confusing. People might expect to see a list of community members when they click to "Community"->"Who we are".
Thanks. On 1/18/07, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jan 18, 2007, at 7:15 AM, Morozova, Nadezhda wrote: > Hi everyone, > After a long-long pause, I'm restarting the thread about our website > navigation menu and generic pages that require improvement. I hope > that > after the New Year all the emotions have boiled down and we can move > over this quickly :) > > Key ideas that were gathered during the review of the sandbox copy of > website: > (1) navigation menu is mostly ok though several improvements are > possible I'm in the "it's ok" camp. There are tweaks, but I still don't see where major change is needed. > (2) some generic pages require improvement because they're outdated or > do not contain required info or don't deliver their main idea clearly +1 > (3) starting page does not give a clear idea of where our project is - > for a newcomer ? > Let's address these one by one. This letter is about (1) only. For (2) > and (3), I'll send patches per page so that we don't miss anything > during the review. > > For the nav pane, I've a patch ready and waiting for your approval to > commit. If you are strongly against a change suggested, let's discuss > this. New version: > > General > * Home > * License > * Contribution Policy > * Downloads > * FAQ > (removed references to ASF and project guidelines because the > Guidelines > actually have info on a number of very different topics, we can try > and > find a better place for them; having Policy *and* Guidelines confuses > many people) We're an ASF project - please put the ASF link back. who has been confused by having "Contribution Policy" and "Project Guidelines"? > > Community > * Get Involved > * Who we are > * Mailing Lists > * Bug Tracker > (removed Documentation (useless page), FAQ is above now, Wiki is in > docs > now, renamed Committers > Who we are (might not be the best name, but > the page can be about PMC, committers and contributors, why only the > committers?); moved JIRA to this list and renamed > Bug Tracker as the > more generic term) Ok > > Development > * Source Code > * Getting Started (link for contributors) > * Project Roadmap > * Resolution Guideline > (removed How are we Doing (useless page), moved roadmap lower to make > Source code stand out, removed Other projects (rarely used page), > added > Resolution guideline) We should keep the "Other Projects" and keep it up to date. Why are Resolution Guidlines not in docs? > > Documentation > * Sitemap > * Wiki > * HDK > * DRLVM > * Class Libraries > * Build-test Framework > (renamed Subcomponents > Documentation; added sitemap (the file itself > is under development now), added wiki link here, added HDK page > (discussible, but hope to have a nice patch to describe our > deliverable > there); removed classlib status (outdated, we can have Wiki instead) Uh, I'm not a big fan of having important info on the Wiki. can we put that back? I think it's important to have that kind of stuff in one place, here on the site. geir > > Thanks, > nadya
-- With best regards, Alexei, ESSD, Intel
