pereinar 2002/07/02 00:58:54
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--- ANNOUNCE 2 Jul 2002 05:28:56 -0000 1.2
+++ ANNOUNCE 2 Jul 2002 07:58:54 -0000 1.3
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
What?
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-As you may know, the work on the new mod_perl site have started in
+As you may know, the work on the new mod_perl site started in
September 2001, and after almost a year we are glad to present to you
the outcome of this work. The new site's goal wasn't only to create a
nice design, but mainly to improve its documentation organization and
-navigation aspects, because of the ever growing amount of
+navigational aspects, because of the ever growing amount of
documentation that the mod_perl community generates.
We have now come to the point where we are very satisfied with the
design and overall usability of the site, so we are proud to announce
the Release Candidate 1. Depending on the feedback from you, the site
-may undergo some minor fixes if there are problems and eventually be
-released for you all to use.
+may undergo some minor fixes if there are problems and will eventually
+be released for you all to use.
Where?
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@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
http://perl.apache.org/release/
-When the Release Candidate gets all bugs rolled out, it will replace
-the existing mod_perl site:
+When the Release Candidate gets all its bugs rolled out, it will
+replace the existing mod_perl site:
http://perl.apache.org/
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@
these standards didn't exist at the time of their release) or simply
broken. However, we still tried to make the site usable for these
browsers, which also somewhat restricted us in deploying the standards
-to their full extent.
+to their full extent.
-So if you see a rendering problem, in an old, buggy or alpha version
-of some browser, but the site is still usable you may have to live
-with that and possibly you will need to consider upgrading your
+So if you see a rendering problem in a browser that is known not to
+support these standards, but the site is still usable, you may have to
+live with that and possibly you will need to consider upgrading your
browser.
The text browsers "lynx" and "links" seem to work fine with the new
@@ -64,7 +64,8 @@
one. We will *not* try to provide a solution for every browser out
there, because we simply don't have the resources for that, and we
don't want to maintain a dozen css style sheets to accomodate for
-idiosyncrasies of every browser.
+idiosyncrasies of every browser. However, we do want to get it to work
+as best as possible for everyone.
Also we would like to remind you that you've had many chances to
influence the overall design of the site and at this point it's too
@@ -78,9 +79,15 @@
Before reporting a problem, first please check whether the problem
that you've have been reported already here:
- http://perl.apache.org/site-issues.txt
+
+ http://perl.apache.org/ISSUES
+
If your issue is already listed, please do not submit it again.
+For a list of working OS/browser combinations, see here:
+
+ http://perl.apache.org/STATUS
+
Otherwise please post the description of the problem to the docs-dev
list:
@@ -100,6 +107,10 @@
- a detailed report of the *exact* problem you are having
- if you have a rendering problem please provide a snapshot, though
please try to keep the snapshot's size small.
+
+If the site is working OK for you, and it's not listed at
+http://perl.apache.org/STATUS , you can send us an "OK" report so that
+we know what works and what doesn't.
Please be as precise as possible to help us find out the problem and
fix it. Furthermore, if you know hot to fix the problem, we will
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