Hello, Frank!
Frank Mau wrote:
Hello again,
a first view on the proposal is available at
http://download.openoffice.org/draft.html
This looks super and, yes, much more in keeping with what one would expect.
I would add a link to "Extensions"
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/
under "Addtional Resources" as well
Again, nice job!
As you can see it's more or less a copy of the 2.3.1 download-page
(http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.1/index.html?focus=download). But
removed the wide-green range of ugly links. Instead of this a simple
link for the used platform and language is given. Below a general link
to all available downloads (should be extended by each language).
All other main-links are related to P2P, CD ordering and the extension
portal. Technical information and development links are right-hand on
the screen. The previous 'help us testing'-link is gone.
In most cases this should be enough for our end-users to get an
OpenOffice.org by One-Click (if the OpenOffice.org is available by
OSUOSL-Bouncer) or some clicks less by the native language download-page.
The switch to have a Bouncer-link or a link to the native-language page
is set in the download.js. So each NL-community can set this for their
own. My advice is, use the one-click-feature for OSUOSL-supported
languages like English US, French, Dutch, Russian, Japanese .... This
will be the easiest way to get an OpenOffice.org by one click.
I know we had a beginning discussion about Bouncer with its
disadvantages. But in most cases the result (a download) will be
delivered in time. And beside this, Bouncer is only a part in this
approach, not the approach itself!
Important for this proposal is to get released versions as soon as
possible to the customer. Updating the large list on
http://download.openoffice.org/other.html is critical. To get the data
we need a central point/tool to hold the information. The tool is named
QATrack (http://qatrack.services.openoffice.org/), written by some of
our community-members, special thanks!!! It allows us to get the entries
for each language in an automated way (with some adaptations in the
future) so we can guarantee further needed updates. In the meantime we
have to update it manually.
Currently I've activated bouncer-links for en-US, ja, fr, ru, nl and de!
Lookout
The work on the new page-design is going forward and I expect very good
results for our customers. Thanks to all of them who are working on
it!!! - The One-Click link can be also placed on our homepage, see the
mock-up links for 'I want to download OpenOffice.org' ...
Ok, and now some Click-counts (starting on
download.openoffice.org/index.html or draft.html) for Windows on a
windows-machine with given language:
language old new
English-US 2 1
German 4* 1
French 3* 1
Hungarian 3* 2*
* uses the native language download-page not Bouncer!
If you're on a en-US machine and looking for example German
OpenOffice.org you need in the new version 2 clicks and on the old way 6
clicks. So in general we can reduce the number of clicks drastically.
Try out and give me response, thank you
Frank
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