On 5/27/07, ant elder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/27/07, Simon Laws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Venkat > > Some more comments > > snip > > > Haleh, the news is something that is very volatile and if we decide to > > place > > things in the chronological order the Release info will at some point > get > > pushed down. Also there is just about a couple of lines that this > News > > can > > mention about a release which is not what I am proposing. I am > proposing > > a > > neat summary of the Release itself on what it offers and on what > platforms > > and so on and also what the changes over the prev. release > are. Infact I > > really wish to make this 'Release' section visibile right at the top > of > > the > > second half of the page and to help in this I'd even see if we can > reduce > > the info about the project by a couple of lines or so. > > > I support this approach, what people really want to know before they > download a specific release is what is in it. This information needs to > be > readily available to them. The information is technology specific so > should > be associated with the particualar technology/download to which it > refers. > So when you said "home page" before did you mean the front page of the > site > or the front page of each subproject? Maybe you could create a first > pass of > the page/section and put it where you think it belongs and we can > comment on > it? Apache Tapestry does this well with a latest releases download box on the top right of the home page: http://tapestry.apache.org/. And Spring with the announcement and changelog for the release next to the download link. Some of our download pages seem cluttered and it can be hard to find the link you need even when you know what you're looking for - http://cwiki.apache.org/TUSCANY/sca-downloads.html. Hopefully this will improve if we move to having just bin and src distributions. Could we do something like change this page http://cwiki.apache.org/TUSCANY/tuscany-downloads.html to be similar to Spring and have download links for only the latest release and the CHANGES and RELEASE_NOTES for SCA, SDO and DAS, and link off to some other page for the older downloads?
I made an attempt at this on a test page to see what it looked like, still doesn't seem very perfect though so if others have better ideas... http://cwiki.apache.org/TUSCANY/tuscany-downloads2.html ...ant
