Or an unobtrusive "notification box" that drops down from the top of the page, saying something like "this is devel"; there would be a dismiss button and a checkbox for whether to show again. The user is free to simply ignore it and proceed as normal.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Vincent Carey <st...@channing.harvard.edu> wrote: > how about a tooltip that reads "installation via biocLite() is the > recommended approach to Bioconductor software > acquisition, other approaches may lead to inconsistent package-sets" that > appears when a reader hovers over a tarball. i would imagine that this is > how the "wrong package" gets installed, by manually using an inappropriate > tarball. > > wrong documentation is not so easy but the doc on the devel branch might > have a different tooltip cautioning the readers to be sure they want to > read the doc on the devel version. > > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Julian Gehring <julian.gehr...@embl.de> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can we make the package websites for the devel and release version of a > > package more distinguishable? > > > > To elaborate on this: In the past, I have seen several users having > > problems with using bioconductor because they ended up on the wrong page > > (mostly the devel page when they would have needed the release). This > > resulted in getting the wrong documentation or installing the wrong > > package. The pages are well designed, and there is no reason to change > > this. However, the websites for the devel and release version of a > package > > look almost identical, and that these two get confused seems to happen to > > many users (me included). > > > > If you search for a package within the bioc website, the release version > > always comes first in the search results. If you are coming from the > > outside (e.g. google), this may not be the case. In fact, googling a few > > packages names often returned only the devel page in the top 10 search > > results. > > > > What are the feelings regarding this? We could add a header section on > the > > devel page that states that this is an unstable version not meant to be > > used in production settings, and provide a link to the respective release > > version? > > > > Best wishes > > Julian > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
