On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 11:19:28PM +0200, Maren Hachmann wrote:
Am 20.10.2016 um 22:42 schrieb Bryce Harrington:
A few more notes I forgot to mention last night, down below... 9. Website Downloads page. Under the Download link, there are platform-specific pages, a Source page, and an Addons page. Those all look great, but there's also another Download page which looks to be mostly redundant, except for the section on Development Versions. I wonder if we could help people avoid confusion and make the pages less subject to get out of date, if we simplified or removed the Download page. Perhaps it could be turned into a "Development Snapshots" type page?
- Yes, that old page causes duplicate work for everyone. I've been
hoping for the releases app to be ready in time, so didn't bother to change the situation.
I'm not sure here, but I think we might need to have a page in that location. The page is actually a parent of the pages below in the menu... It only *looks* as if it were a 'sibling' (bolded, though). I don't know if the cms allows to *not* have a page in that position... Never tried. I might do so this weekend, if nobody else does (or Martin just knows).
Then maybe it should simply be the same 5 links as is in the menu, perhaps with a thumbnail or icon for the platform in question. Something clean and simple.
Such a page might also be a good place to have a table of past releases. For the most part those don't matter much for users, but the question of where to get them does pop up now and then so having an official listing of links to historical packages *somewhere* in the website would be nice.
Using a new page for development snapshots is possible - or we could also just add them to their specific platform subpage.
I've noticed the development snapshots often want to have additional directions or tips, which can look a bit cluttery / jargony and thus potentially a big source of confusion.
In any case, probably not worth overthinking here, especially given that there's a new releases app coming. The main thing is to keep things looking neat & tidy for the release.
Maybe we could modify the main download page to only contain links to the subpages, for this release? (and add that page for the devel snapshots). Would still mean two additional clicks for those who dare select it instead of their platform page...
Ah, yeah we had the same thought. :-)
Some odds and ends / janitor tasks.
- When uploading packages to the website gallery, there is an option to set a thumbnail/icon image. I usually am in a hurry so don't bother. But it would be nice to have a stock icon, or a simple bash script to generate a custom SVG (and then render to PNG).
- Martin created some for 0.91 and the pre-releases - maybe he's still
got the file? Here are a couple of examples: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/=inkscape-package/
Yeah would be nice to get that into the inkscape bzr tree, then perhaps I could make it part of the release process to make a copy with the new version number, that can then be used on all the uploads.
Thanks, Bryce
Regards, Maren
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