Hi *, On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 02:27:32PM -0800, Kay Schenk wrote: > > You can view/use the changes I've made to the download page from > > http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/Kay/download/DL_index.html
While I'm glad that you're trying to work on it, I'm kind of disappointed that you rush with it, without defining the requirements first. > Though, on the surface it doesn't look a LOT different, you can > play with the additional "version" dropdown. Some bad points: You have to manually select the version of OOo. You have to manually select a mirror. Both things are preselected automatically by the script that the german-lang team uses. Not using the german script but... > I did MAJOR surgery on the JS for this putting the script at the > top-level of the download area, download.openoffice.org, doing major (capitalized) surgery on the old javascript, I take this as an indication that you're no longer interested in integration the script the german team uses. That you assemble the filename-part of the URL shows as well that you did not pay attention to what was written in the small conversation between murb and me. All that would be no problem, but I would have liked to see some explanation on why you do so nevertheless. > hopefully to make maintenance *much* easier if you continue with > this in the future. Another major change is basically the > construction of the mirror links from the user supplied OOo > version they select and the OS, thus eliminating the HUGE amounts > of arrays we originally had in there. Those of who haven't had to > deal with this every time a new version came about probably don't > care much, but I know there are some of you who did. See also murbs comment. It is not even clear whether we would like to offer other versions than the current one. Havin "stable" as part of the main-Server URL also indicates that you're not planning to offer direct download of localized versions. That is fine as well - your mockup - but again I'd prefer you taking part in the discussion about the actual requirements of the download page first. > Finally, there's a single array toward the top of the script > which holds versions and descriptions of them, so it will be a > LOT easier to just plunk another one in. Basically a LOT of the > structure we've been dealing with in the download area of the > site may be able to jsut go away entirely. Sorry to say, but IMHO your efforts were kind of a waste of time, since the german scrip already does what your new script does (and I think it does a better job at it (automatic proposal of defaults)) and since it is not clear whether the changes you did are needed at all. > OK, issues with this version (and possible additional > enhancements)... > > * not all the mirrors still carry the versions I've included > here. Is there some time limit for them on this? The point being > that to include MULTIPLE versions for a consistent set of mirrors > (now automatically generated), we need to somehow ensure that the > versions will exist on those mirrors. That't one of the reasons why german-lang team has the mirror array with associates a list of "platforms" with each mirror (e.g. to describe what version a mirror offers). > * the naming of some download files, notably the JRE versions, > has actually changed from say 2.0.0 -> 2.0.1 -> 2.0.2. This is > not good! Yes. So you're aware of inconsistencies of the naming and still you're assembling the URL. > [...] > I'm not going to get into the "localizations" discussion further. > I personally think it's a good idea to have folks "visit" the > actual native language sites. Ok. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. > [...] ciao Christian -- NP: Nirvana - Rape Me --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
