Re: Installation Instructions link
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:09:12PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: What is the proper mailing list for this be discussed? This discussion should be moved there. Well, this is debian-www :) I'd like to see each of the links at the top of the page be to a separate page: * General Information * Release Notes * New Installations * Errata * Reporting Problems * Credits I did this for releases/woody/ already. I can do it for releases/potato/, too. I'll have to change the links to releases/stable/#new-inst for woody anyway, so why not start now. One minor nit about this page is that it is not clear what someone who is upgrading should go. Yeah, unless they read the start of pretty much every section up to the right one, about release notes. This would be fixed with the above change, too. Also, there are two ways to handle having multiple arches: have each section have links to the pages for each arch (as is currently done) or to have the user select once what their arch is. I know it would be a big change but feel that the second solution would make life easier when installing. On the other hand, it would probably make the life of those writing those pages much harder. There's one other problem -- the ports pages differ among each other, as some have specific user-level data on them, and some don't. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: Installation Instructions link
Josip Rodin: I'll have to change the links to releases/stable/#new-inst for woody anyway, so why not start now. I'd rather see it wasn't changed until woody's release. Wise from the potato release, we could fix all these links on a branch, and update all the translations on that branch, and then merge back when the release happens. Or, even, branch off the potato stuff and have woody on the trunk - that's probably a better idea. Then we only need to switch to the trunk when woody goes live, and everything will be there by magic. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ Statement concerning unsolicited e-mail according to Swedish law: http://www.softwolves.pp.se/peter/reklampost.html
Re: Installation Instructions link
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:45:59PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: I'll have to change the links to releases/stable/#new-inst for woody anyway, so why not start now. I'd rather see it wasn't changed until woody's release. Wise from the potato release, we could fix all these links on a branch, and update all the translations on that branch, and then merge back when the release happens. Or, even, branch off the potato stuff and have woody on the trunk - that's probably a better idea. Then we only need to switch to the trunk when woody goes live, and everything will be there by magic. No, you see, there will be no switchover -- links to /releases/stable/#new-inst weren't going to change with woody; now /releases/stable/installmanual weren't going to change with woody. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: Installation Instructions link
What is the proper mailing list for this be discussed? This discussion should be moved there. On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:45:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: There is a link from the front page to Installation Instructions, which takes you to a link below the fold on the Installation page. I think it would be better to take you to the top of that page, because then you can see the list of architectures and check out the Ports link for your arch before proceeding to the manual. I agree, but I'd rather see the link be to a much shorter page. There is a not so fine line between sites that have only one screenful of information per page and sites that have huge pages. For me, http://www.debian.org/releases/stable is 12 pages long - much too long. I'd like to see each of the links at the top of the page be to a separate page: * General Information * Release Notes * New Installations * Errata * Reporting Problems * Credits One minor nit about this page is that it is not clear what someone who is upgrading should go. Also, there are two ways to handle having multiple arches: have each section have links to the pages for each arch (as is currently done) or to have the user select once what their arch is. I know it would be a big change but feel that the second solution would make life easier when installing. On the other hand, it would probably make the life of those writing those pages much harder. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
