On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Will Glass-Husain wrote:
As a lurker who's been watching this conversation I have a basic question -
Do most visitors care about whether a project is "graduated" or "related"?
Not as such. What they care about is that they can't find projects that have been graduated.
What I care about is that I don't want to list every related project on our nav as it'll get out of control :)
If a new user comes from an up-to-date link (or book/article), they won't even be looking here. If they see an out-of-date reference in to the jakarta site, usually it'll be to a direct URL (e.g. http://jakarta.apache.org/ant) which should just forward to the new URL. I suspect only a few people will be searching on the Jakarta home page for ant, etc. So why not just a simple prominent sentence "Can't find what you're looking for? Check the list of related projects at http://www.apache.org";.
Yep, tis an option. The welcome to has such a sentence, though people are unlikely to read the welcome message if they think they know what they are looking for.
I can't think of a way to get such a sentence into the navbar :) Could just have a link at the bottom to 'Other ASF Projects', but even that would look daft.
Hen
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