It does need some work, like many areas of the site. If you tell me your
Confluence username, I can give you permission to edit pages. I would
appreciate the help.
-Ben
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Marcus Kraßmann <m...@syn-online.de> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> not sure if this affects more the dev or the users list, so I will start
> here.
>
> I never felt good with the structure of the download area on
> stripesframework.org.
> Having a look on it, I see the current release version. Good, so far.
> Now I would expect a download link for Stripes. Clicking the first link
> with the word "stripes" in it will surely give me the current release. But
> it doesn't! Instead, I get a very outdated "Documentation Snapshot". What
> the heck?!?
> Okay, sharply looking at the head lines. "Stripes Downloads" sounds good.
> Some explanatory words, okay. But where is the f**king download link? An
> (again) outdated Sourceforge RSS seems to be included, anouncing Stripes
> 1.5.1, but clicking here again does not forward to the JAR.
>
> I don't want to be offending, but IMHO the download site is one of the
> worst areas of stripesframework.org and it should really be redesigned /
> restructured. This is what I would do if no one would stop me from doing it:
>
> - Bring important stuff to the top, especially a link to
>
> "http://sourceforge.net/projects/stripes/files/";<http://sourceforge.net/projects/stripes/files/>which
> is always up2date! After this section, follow with documentation links
> (if needed).
> - Add a small Maven section with a Stripes dependency snippet. So Maven
> users just need to copy&paste it into their pom.xml file.
> - Eliminate anything related to old released before 1.5.x, or create
> an own "archive" site for this outdated stuff.
> - Remove the "{rss:url=
> http://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_projfiles.php?group_id=145476&x=1}";.
> Really important news are on the starting page in green boxes. (And I have
> no clue how this RSS gets its data. I found this link at SourceForge:
> http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=145476 , but it generates other
> news that the RSS link.)
> - Maybe, add a link where the current 1.5.x SNAPSHOT can be downloaded
> ("nightly build" based on the latest SVN code). Again together with a Maven
> snippet.
>
> What are your thoughts about this topic? Any other opinions? Did I miss
> something, or do you feel that the download area is fine as it is?
>
> Kind regards,
> Marcus
>
>
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