On 05/31/2014 09:10 AM, Wout Mertens wrote:
So concretely:* "Help" should be "Documentation" or "Docs", I tripped over the same thing
Yes, the word "Help" is IMO rarely used in this sense. To me it associates to "Contribute / Help us" easily as well.
* I miss the very visible introduction to each of the components
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* I see no mention of Nixpkgs at all
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* For project discovery, a 2-minute video is excellent. [...]
o I suppose I could make one but I feel unqualified :)
I might be in minority, but the current layout does seem weird:- The first half of what you see is focused on newcomers (those who know nothing about the project).
- The second half contains various types of news.So we have two halves with nontrivial content that are useful to *different* sets of people. Newcomers will hardly get good idea from recent news (as it contains mostly differential information), and the introductory half will mostly be useless to anyone but newcomers :-)
Personally, I would probably convert the homepage to a simply structured collection of most useful links, naturally starting with a big fat one like "Introduction to NixOS.org", so we would "separate" this specific group and could provide them *more* information (the half-page is only an advertisement, and can't give a basic idea about the project). Direct link to each of those "projects" would be nice, as IMO they're used a lot.
News: currently it's more than one screenful of information (for me), so I would again separate it into nixos.org/news page. BTW, RSS/Atom are very useful for such things, and I see none on the homepage or planet. Some build status summary might also be on that page, like the timestamps+revisions of the latest channel bumps.
Videos: I really prefer well-structured linked text (with images) to videos. IMO a text of comparable value is much easier to produce. I understand that videos are better at keeping attention of some people... BTW we *do* have recordings of several introductory Nix(OS) talks, notably the FOSDEM one.
https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix(OS)_in_the_media_and_presentationsDisNix: I *heard* it's largely orthogonal to NixOps and that it makes sense to use them together.
Vlada
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