[openbeos] Re: New website home page mockup
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:09:19 +0200 CEST
"Jorge G. Mare (a.k.a. Koki)" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Removing the Forums entries may be OK, but not the Documentation
> Updates.
>
> One of the requirements of the new website was to make progress more
> obvious, and the documentation has been identified as a key area of
> the
> project. It is therefore important to show progress being made in
> this
> area as well. This box does just that.
Documentation itself is important, but before I'd put "documentation
updates" to the front page, I would rather see "recent commits" on the
front page - depending on where you stand, it's similar information;
IMO both don't belong on a general front page, though. If we have a
customized front page as Austin proposed, stuff like this would make a
lot more sense, I think (btw, such a feature would be easily possible
with Drupal; it's a built-in feature of the front_page module we're
already using).
Another problem would be how this information could be generated
automatically (unlike the other ones or SVN commits).
> > * simplify the development section on the front page
> What is there to simplify being that developers are our key targets
> at
> this point in time?
I'm fine with what's currently visible in the mockup - the only problem
I'd see is that there currently is no general development mailing list;
at least this list doesn't really fit to that title.
How would you (Waldemar, obviously) like to simplify this one? What do
you think can (or even should) be hidden?
> > (and later it
> > should go away, completely)
> This will be determined depending on the needs of the project. Let's
> not
> try to predict the future. :-)
Well, our focus will be getting users interested, once we have R1 done.
There is nothing that will change that. Unlike BeOS, we already have
hundreds of apps available when we have our release - some of them are
even usable ;-)
> > * reduce the number of quick-links on the front page
> Doing as you suggest goes against our specific goals of exposing more
> content and showing more progress.
Shrugging my shoulders a bit on those four boxes (which I think is
little much), I like the direction of the mockup.
Bye,
Axel.
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