Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> >>Having said that, I still don't understand your point. Please say
> >>exactly what your version would look like.
> >>
> >
> > /download_directory (whatever it's named [1])
> > |
> > |--mozilla/
> > |
> > |--releases/
> > | |
> > | |--0.6
> > | |
> > | |--0.7
> > | |
> > | |--etc.
> > |
> > |--distributions
>
> I don't like this for several reasons :-)
> 1) It implies that you can download distributions from here
Where do you plan to link to distributions from?
> 2) There is redundancy betwen the /download_directory and releases/,
> whatever you happen to call the download directory.
No there isn't. The download directory index page is a list of
all of mozilla.org's software -
Mozilla
Bugzilla
Bonsai
Transformiix
etc.
The releases index page is a list of all the releases for a
given piece of software. (It's under that software's directory.)
Mozilla Releases
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
0.9.1
0.9.2
0.9.3
0.9.4
> 3) I think it's more confusing (given your comments below)
Mind explaining?
> Folders are for the grouping of related documents. I assert that a list
> of Mozilla's last few milestone releases and a list of the ones before
> that (or a complete list) are related documents, and should be in the
> same folder.
They are in the same folder. Compare:
http://mozilla.org/software/mozilla
http://mozilla.org/software/mozilla/releases
http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla
http://mozilla.org/releases/mozilla/archive
You must stop thinking in terms of "page" and "directory with index".
They are different only in implementation.
> On a related point, we should almost certainly be doing each release as
> a separate fragment..
Do whatever you want with the fragments. They're implementation
issues and have nothing to do with how mozilla.org is presented.
> > download_directory/ - provides general information on
> > Mozilla software products--basically
> > what's available here.
>
> Why do we need this page at all? People do not come to mozilla.org and
> say "so, what do you have to download? A bug tracking system? No, not
> interested in that. What else is there? A web browser! I'll give that a
> try."
I want to use Bugzilla for my software development project. I
come to mozilla.org--now what? There's no list of what software
I can download, so I go run a search. Search gives me 250+
results, with Report A Bug at the top. So I go to that page,
scan it all the way to the bottom and find a link to the page
describing Bugzilla--components, summaries, and whatnot. I scan
this and find a link to the Bugzilla project page. Well, here I
am, but that certainly was a circuitous route.
Unfortunately, I forget to bookmark the page, and two weeks later,
I have to go through the whole thing again.
> You'd rather label them under /download/ or /products/?
Good point. No, I'd rather not.
But /software works ok. And /products isn't too bad--it's still a
product of mozilla.org's work. ;)
