Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Derek Cicero wrote: >> Alan Coopersmith wrote: >>> andrewk9 wrote: >>>>> Actually, Nevada is the code name for the entirety of >>>>> the next version >>>>> of Solaris, including not just ON, but all the other >>>>> consolidations (X, >>>>> JDS, SFW, NWS, GAN, etc.) as well. ONNV is the code >>>>> name for ON for >>>>> Nevada. >>>> That's what I thought, but then I clicked "Nevada Community" on the >>>> front page of the website as I wanted to check. I then got a page >>>> that said "OS/Net" so I figured I was wrong - oops! >>> The link was incorrectly set long ago and remains broken out >>> of tradition. If you follow it, you'll see there is no >>> "Nevada Community" there, just an ON community group with a >>> ONNV project. >> Should I change it to OS/Net (ON)? I thought that page actually had >> "Nevada" on it and explained the correlation. > > Why is that the one community that should be called out on every page > of the main part of the site? It's not even a particularly good one > to send newbies to as there's nowhere to ask questions.
Originally Dan Price suggested we put Nevada in the left nav because that is where we host information such as the OpenSolaris Developer's Reference Guide, the flags day notices and the gate schedule, among other items. The Nevada link is the sixth most selected item on the left nav and the ON community page is the second most visited project/community behind ZFS. Now, is it popular due to its prominence or is it prominent b/c it's popular? The two most visited pages below it are: #58 OpenSolaris Developer's Reference Guide and #59 Flag Days The only non-landing pages that are above them are: 13. Community/ZFS/whatis 20. Community/Zones/faq 21. Community/ZFS/demos:basics 22. Community/Xen:docs 24. Articles/Comparison_of_solaris__linux__and_freebsd_kernels 27. Community/ZFS/docs 31. Community/ZFS/intro 32. Community/ZFS/faq 37. Community/Device Drivers/Projects/longriver/nic_driver_list 45. Community/Dtrace/dtracetoolkit 46. Community/ZFS/demos/selfheal So I would make the case that the content inside that community should be highlighted. As a result, I would propose that we either: 1) Move the key content elsewhere and make that link accessible from the homepage. 2) Expand the 'Communities' section in the left nav to include ZFS, Zones, Xen and DTrace. 3) Combine the Communities and Projects headers in the left nav, with links to their respective landing pages, and utilize the right side call out boxes to highlight the most popular projects and communities, similar to how it is done here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/#all I would vote for #2, but feel free to propose an alternate solution (or reiterate the original one). Derek > Can we just delete the link in the sidebar? (Perhaps a distro community > would be a good one to call out there, once we actually have one set up.) > -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
