Re: Where to download Cordova shell tools?

2015-12-02 Thread Robert Hoffmann
Thank you for these links! Please find below some thoughts... maybe they can help you make the documentation and user experience for dummies like me even better :) In hindsight "npm install cordova-android" seems obvious, but I would not have guessed it. Especially because I want to be

RE: Where to download Cordova shell tools?

2015-12-02 Thread Parashuram N
. -Original Message- From: Robert Hoffmann [mailto:robert.hoffmann@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 3:08 AM To: dev@cordova.apache.org Subject: Re: Where to download Cordova shell tools? Thank you for these links! Please find below some thoughts... maybe they can help you make

Re: Where to download Cordova shell tools?

2015-12-01 Thread Steven Gill
If you want cordova-android, you can download it from github[1], npm[2] or apache dist[3]. We need to add links to npm + dist on the website. Any thoughts where we should add them? Maybe we should add a download section. [1] https://github.com/apache/cordova-android [2]

Re: Where to download Cordova shell tools?

2015-12-01 Thread Dmitry Blotsky
We do have “npm install -g cordova” on the front page, but I guess there is no clear link to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/cordova/ anywhere. I really like that link and I think it would be great to have it easily accessible. I’m leaning toward the header (a bit loud) or the footer

Re: Where to download Cordova shell tools?

2015-12-01 Thread Steven Gill
I'd say footer as most of our users aren't going to use dist. I think it is worth adding the npm links for all of our repos at http://cordova.apache.org/contribute/ beside the github and apache git repo links. On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Dmitry Blotsky wrote: > We

Re: Where to download Cordova shell tools?

2015-12-01 Thread Steven Gill
Sure. But for the example above, where someone wants cordova-android (especially with the new platform API), we are going to see more people wanting to require('cordova-android'). We should atleast provide links to our official download distributions on our site. If not on the contributions page,

Re: Where to download Cordova shell tools?

2015-12-01 Thread Dmitry Blotsky
Footer sounds good to me. I’m not a fan of adding NPM links for two reasons though: 1). Not every repo should be installed manually via NPM 2). The information on the NPM page is already shown on GitHub Kindly, Dmitry > On Dec 1, 2015, at 4:20 PM, Steven Gill wrote: >

Where to download Cordova shell tools?

2015-12-01 Thread Robert Hoffmann
Hi, The cordova documentation refers multiple time to "download from cordova.apache.org" e.g. http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/guide/platforms/android/tools.html "To enable shell tools for Android, download Cordova from cordova.apache.org. The download contains separate archives for

Re: Where to download Cordova shell tools?

2015-12-01 Thread Carlos Santana
What is plugman? :-] +1 apache dist link not on header, put it on footer +1 updating "Contribute Page" - add npm icon (link) to applicable components - add bug icon (JIRA link) directly takes to see open issues for that specific component, github repo's readme already have this info on how to