John McCreesh wrote:
The links on the home page are designed to take potential *users* to a
description of what each component of OOo does. So, when Base became a
separate 'standalone' component, it got its own link
http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html (and the Base folks asked
for a link to their project page, which is now on the bottom of the page
"For more information, please see the Base project page").
If Chart becomes a separate 'standalone' component, then we can do the
same.
There's two separate issues here:
First, it would be nice to make the project home pages (that's
http://sc.openoffice.org etc.) the first stop for anyone interested in
one of the modules. Until now, these pages were targeted only at
developers, we should change that. That doesn't mean duplicating user
and marketing related material, but rather linking to it.
http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html would be one of the first
links on the "new" Calc page ("what's this all about?"). As a result, we
would no longer have user and developer pages separated so much, and
perhaps this would encourage more users to also consider helping with
development (including QA).
Second, Chart is always lost somewhere between the projects. By
structure (cvs etc.), it's part of "Graphics Applications", but people
tend to think of it as part of the module into which a chart is inserted
(often Calc). If we had a separate link to a Chart page on the front
page, it would be easier to find - and it should be found, with the new
chart coming up and a beta already available.
Niklas
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