The Web Maestro wrote:
On 7/29/07, Andreas L Delmelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Jul 27, 2007, at 18:36, Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
it would be good to refactor
the website before the release and, in particular, remove the 0.20.5
tab.
This could maybe still be done before the release, but I started
wondering...
I'd like to call for help on this, as this is not a small task.
I'll try to do as much as possible on the WE, but that would be
great if
we could share the work. Any volunteers?
Some tasks I can think of right now:
- update the introduction page (latest stable release, version of the
recommendation implemented...)
- add a small news section on the home page? this would make the site
look more live. It could simply list the latest versions released.
- correct/update/simplify other pages
Wouldn't it be better, FTM, to focus on making the site 0.94-ready,
and do any serious restyling afterwards? It's just that a release by
itself already takes some work and preparation... Just a thought.
I'll spend some time looking into what it'll take to refactor,
although I agree with Andreas that it would be better to focus on
getting 0.94 ready and do any necessary 'purging' of fop-0.20.5 after
that, if that's what's deemed best.
I'm not actually convinced eradicating it from the FOP site is the
best route, as there will be some who can't upgrade (namely users of
AIX 4.1 and/or others who can't upgrade to a Java Run-time Environment
newer than 1.3)... I would think the fop-0.20.5 information should
remain accessible somewhere other than on <http://archive.org/>. The
good part is, that the content will likely never change and would
exist on a separate TAB, out of the way. That's not to say I'm firmly
in the trench of keeping the content, but I don't see how it'd hurt to
retain it.
Hi Clay,
0.93 and 0.94 are still compatible with Java 1.3 so AIX 4.1 users will
still be able to use it. We have clients running AIX who use Java 1.4,
so I didn't realise AIX couldn't run 1.4. Maybe its down to exact o/s
version. In either case, we decided to drop support for 1.3 after 0.94.
So if 1.3 is still needed in the future users can download 0.94. And I
think the website should reflect this.
The reason why 0.20.5 should be removed from the website is that
fop-users is still receiving several posts per week relating to it.
There is now very little knowledge of it within our development team, so
supporting it is not something we would like to continue. Therefore,
users should be actively discouraged from downloading it. Looking at the
website today, I get the impression that 0.20.5 and 0.94 are two
separate development streams which both receive active maintenance.
However, we all know that is not the case. 0.9x is a direct replacement
for the 0.20.x series.
It made sense to keep 0.20.5 on the website for a couple of years after
the initial 0.9x release to give folk a chance to upgrade. But 0.9x has
been around for a couple of years and now I believe it is time to start
encouraging users to switch over.
Chris
