Re: further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-16 Thread Simeon Geiger via subsurface
Hi all, It's a bit lonely here when no one comments on the work we do. There's a few hundred people on this mailing list (and with the recent bout of emails, three unsubscribed 藍) I liked the increased activity on the mailing list. So here is my feedback: 1. The download pages look good to

Re: further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-16 Thread Robert Helling via subsurface
Hi everyone, > On 16. Jan 2024, at 04:40, Dirk Hohndel via subsurface > wrote: > > Yet another iteration. I followed many of Michael's suggestions. > > I'm curious what others think? > > It's a bit lonely here when no one comments on the work we do. There's a few > hundred people on this

Re: further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-15 Thread Martin de Weger via subsurface
Hi Dirk, I’ll try to click around in the next couple of days. What I did notice on my Mac was a 404 error on the current release page: Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server. Apache/2.4.52 (Ubuntu) Server at subsurface-divelog.org Port 443 Kind regards, Martin de Weger >

Re: further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-15 Thread Michael Keller via subsurface
Hi Dirk. On 16/01/24 16:40, Dirk Hohndel via subsurface wrote: Yet another iteration. I followed many of Michael's suggestions. I'm curious what others think? It's a bit lonely here when no one comments on the work we do. There's a few hundred people on this mailing list (and with the recent

Re: further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-15 Thread Dirk Hohndel via subsurface
Yet another iteration. I followed many of Michael's suggestions. I'm curious what others think? It's a bit lonely here when no one comments on the work we do. There's a few hundred people on this mailing list (and with the recent bout of emails, three unsubscribed 藍) None of this requires a

Re: further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-15 Thread Michael Keller via subsurface
Hi Dirk. On 15/01/24 19:57, Dirk Hohndel via subsurface wrote: I would probably add a link to the other page to the top of each page, 'if you want the latest version, go [here]' / 'if you want a more stable version, go [here]', or else users will get locked in once they have bookmarked one of

Re: further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-15 Thread Martin Gysel via subsurface
Am Montag, 15. Januar 2024, 01:34:05 CET schrieb Dirk Hohndel via subsurface: > Not being able to leave your house, a laptop and internet connection... > ideal conditions to keep dinking around with stuff :) > > On Jan 13, 2024, at 10:53, Dirk wrote: > > > > In order to address some of these

Re: further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-14 Thread Dirk Hohndel via subsurface
> >>Also, I am wondering if the iOS paragraph should be above 'Linux' - >>this will make it show above the fold for most users, and reduce the >>number of users posting questions after not finding it. > >The reason I have it on the bottom is because it doesn't really give people >anything. And

Re: further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-14 Thread Dirk Hohndel via subsurface
On January 14, 2024 6:16:44 PM PST, Michael Keller wrote: > > >Looking good! Thank you >I would probably add a link to the other page to the top of each page, >'if you want the latest version, go [here]' / 'if you want a more >stable version, go [here]', or else users will get locked in once

Re: further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-14 Thread Michael Keller via subsurface
Hi Dirk. On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 1:35 PM Dirk Hohndel via subsurface wrote: > > Not being able to leave your house, a laptop and internet connection... ideal > conditions to keep dinking around with stuff :) Sounds like the perfect weekend. :-P > So this should now be the

Re: further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-14 Thread Dirk Hohndel via subsurface
Not being able to leave your house, a laptop and internet connection... ideal conditions to keep dinking around with stuff :) > On Jan 13, 2024, at 10:53, Dirk wrote: > > In order to address some of these concerns, I built a new download page and > some automation that keeps it updated. This

further iterations on the release process and user experience

2024-01-13 Thread Dirk Hohndel via subsurface
I have been chatting off-list with Michael but really should be having these conversations here. Initial feedback on the CICD release process has been overwhelmingly positive, but there were a few really good pieces of criticism as well - the GitHub release page is not very user friendly and