Am 06/11/2012 05:52 PM, schrieb Rob Weir:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
On 08.06.2012 11:06, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:
[snip]
Dutch -> http://www.openoffice.org/nl/downloaden.html
French -> http://www.openoffice.org/fr/Telecharger/
German -> http://www.openoffice.org/download
Question for discussion:
Should we use the English (US) download page as a fallback for the
languages
for which we have no localized download page?
orw's opinion: I am not in favor of such a fallback, but I currently
see no
other solution.
I think we still want to gradually enable the upgrade notifications
over the next week. Maybe we start with those that have good NL
download pages. But at the end, we really need to enable everyone to
upgrade. AOO 3.4 has important security patches. So at the end, if
there is no good NL page we would direct them to the default English
page. And if we get an improved NL page in the future, we can add
support for that,
I just checked the traffic, I think we could add other countries by
now, at least from an infrastructure perspective.
For example we could add US, that is the fourth country by daily visits.
Ok, I will add en-US tomorrow morning 10:00 (GMT+2).
I was a little bit late - I was caught by some hacking to solve issues.
OOo 3.3 Update Service is now active for:
- Italian since Tuesday 10:00 (GMT+2)
- Spanish and Japanese since Thurday 10:00 (GMT+2)
- English (US) since Friday 11:00 (GMT+2)
We are in a good shape with our OOo 3.3 update service.
Thus, I will add tomorrow morning 09:30 (GMT+2)
- Chinese (simplified) with download page http://www.openoffice.org/download
Maybe better would be: http://www.openoffice.org/zh-tw/
That would give them more context, including the translation of the
AOO 3.4 announcement.
- Chinese (traditional) with http://www.openoffice.org/download
Same here, maybe better would be: http://www.openoffice.org/zh-cn/
- Dutch with http://www.openoffice.org/nl/downloaden.html
- French with http://www.openoffice.org/fr/Telecharger/
- German with http://www.openoffice.org/download
I wonder if better would be: http://www.openoffice.org/de/
So this is a question for others as well. We can either:
1) Point the user to the download page specifically, which is often in
English, rather than NL
or
2) Point the user to the NL page where available, provided it has a
prominent download link.
Advantage of #1 is it eliminates an extra mouse click. Advantage of
#2 is it gives the user additional NL context, including the AOO 3.4
announcement and other material. So #2 is probably easier for someone
with less English language skills.
I tend to agree with you.
Unfortunately, #2 is not a real advantage (I'm only speak for the German
webpage). The main page is in German, yes, but right the next click on
the big donwload button brings the user to an English-speaking webpage.
However, I would say that the "http://www.openoffice.org/de/"; link can
be indeed chosen. Just because this will give the German main page more
attention than before. And - who knows - maybe also more volunteers
willing to work on the German webpages.
Marcus
I will do so, if nobody raises any objections.
I am proposing to add the remaining languages on Thursday morning 09:30
(GMT+2). These are:
- Arabic
- Czech
- Galician
- Hungarian
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
If there are any localized download pages for the above languages, please
let me know - I can then update the corresponding information.
Best regards, Oliver.
