On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Florent Aide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I created a ticket #1992 in our trac and begun work on it. Attached is > a screen grab of how it looks like on my machine. Sorry for the file > size but trac did not accept my attachement. > The text is not finalized and Ken is working on it right now. Please > don't hesitate to comment, propose, improve whatever... > > The most important thing for me is not that we keep this design or do > something radically different... It is that TG gets a new quickstart > template that make people like their first sight of it. > > Florent. >
My concern with the original wording here was that it sounded a little bit defensive. A quickstarted template isn't the right place for that, since it's one of the first things a new TG customer sees. We should strive for warm, friendly, & engaging. I'm not sure I accomplished all that, but I went ahead and committed some alternate wording. (Some of the text is stolen from the main TG site). One of the statements in the original text was "The TurboGears team has clearly stated and reaffirms here that the 1.x branch will be supported for at least 2 more years". I'm -0 on the whole support time-frame idea. If Florent & Mark think it's a useful concept, then fine, but I'd rather our actions speak for us. There's been a ton of hot_action() in 1.x in the last 6 months, and that should assuage any reasonable person's concerns about 1.x being abandoned. Regardless, support timelines are a topic for blog posts & perhaps the main webpage, but not a quickstart template. I'd also prefer that we didn't say 1.x in this context, but rather specify 1.0.x specifically. 1.x will live on as long as people are interested in it, just like any software project. (Obviously I'm biased, but I think 1.5 opens up a whole new world of possibilities for us.) BTW, for a while I had the following paragraph in the template, but ultimately decided it was too wordy. Maybe there's another place for it before it dies: "TurboGears is the the opinionated framework that invites you to disagree, so if you have a favorite Python component that's different than our defaults, you're free to use it. If it's a popular tool, chances are someone already has it working with TurboGears. If not, ask on our mailing list, and we'll be happy to help you get started." Finally, just to be clear, I think the new qs template is very visually appealing, and a major step forward. Everything I said above is minor notes intended to explain why I committed a revision. Thanks, -Ken --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to turbogears-trunk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
