Re: [all] short critique of site

2005-12-03 Thread robert burrell donkin
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 23:47 +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Henri Yandell wrote: 7) Contributor page. Is this worth the effort of the maintenance? I don't know how this page is maintained currently, but maybe it could be built automatically from the POMs with a script ? +1 such a script

Re: [all] short critique of site

2005-12-03 Thread Martin van den Bemt
robert burrell donkin wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 23:47 +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: Henri Yandell wrote: 7) Contributor page. Is this worth the effort of the maintenance? I don't know how this page is maintained currently, but maybe it could be built automatically from the POMs with a

Re: [all] short critique of site

2005-12-03 Thread Rahul Akolkar
On 12/1/05, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some thoughts on the site. snip/ B] Clicking on sandbox. 1) There are many projects which have become dormant. How should we be changing the site? 2) Corresponding Wiki page needs changing [my fault :) ] snap/ I tinkered with one of

Re: [all] short critique of site

2005-12-03 Thread Henri Yandell
A further remark about the site. I think that we should kill the big list of siblings on the left hand side of each component's site. It's no longer scoping, hard to keep up to date and not that useful. People can '..' up to Commons via the links. Admittedly my other ideas on the site might make

Re: [all] short critique of site

2005-12-03 Thread Henri Yandell
On 12/3/05, Rahul Akolkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/05, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some thoughts on the site. snip/ B] Clicking on sandbox. 1) There are many projects which have become dormant. How should we be changing the site? 2) Corresponding Wiki page

Re: [all] short critique of site

2005-12-02 Thread Henri Yandell
On 12/1/05, Martin Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/1/05, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some thoughts on the site. A] Looking at the front page. 1) Jakarta link on the bar is redundant. We already have a huge logo in the top left. 2) No need to include the direct svn

Re: [all] short critique of site

2005-12-02 Thread Giorgio Gallo
Might I add: 8) The bug database link should point to a page where an user is advised to look in the sites of the single components instead of pointing to http://jakarta.apache.org/site/bugs.html Henri Yandell wrote: Some thoughts on the site. A] Looking at the front page. 1) Jakarta

Re: [all] short critique of site

2005-12-02 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Henri Yandell wrote: 7) Contributor page. Is this worth the effort of the maintenance? I don't know how this page is maintained currently, but maybe it could be built automatically from the POMs with a script ? Emmanuel Bourg

[all] short critique of site

2005-12-01 Thread Henri Yandell
Some thoughts on the site. A] Looking at the front page. 1) Jakarta link on the bar is redundant. We already have a huge logo in the top left. 2) No need to include the direct svn link, just use viewcvs. Simpler for the user. 3) Korea translation link is dead. 4) Japanese translation link is out

Re: [all] short critique of site

2005-12-01 Thread Martin Cooper
On 12/1/05, Henri Yandell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some thoughts on the site. A] Looking at the front page. 1) Jakarta link on the bar is redundant. We already have a huge logo in the top left. 2) No need to include the direct svn link, just use viewcvs. Simpler for the user. Perhaps,