On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 24/07/2013 Hagar Delest wrote: >> >> Huge thanks for such reactivity indeed. > > > But a lot of people are missing it due to the "portable" version being too > hidden in our download infrastructure. > > What's the best solution to ensure that: > 1) Users can actually find the "portable" version and > 2) Users are correctly informed that this is a third-party port? > > My proposal (subject to lazy consensus or discussion here) would be to > modify > http://www.openoffice.org/download/ > as follows: add it to the line that says > Get all platforms, languages, language packs | Source Code tarballs and SDK > | > so that it becomes > Get all platforms, languages, language packs | Source Code tarballs and SDK > | Third-party and portable versions > > and to link the additional text to > http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ > so that people are correctly informed. This also ensures that when/if we > have other portable versions available nothing needs to be changed. >
No objections, but I don't think this will be very effective. People who know about "portable" software will probably just search Google for "portable OpenOffice", in which case they will find our existing ports page, blog post, etc. (Searching via a search engine is more effective than navigating through a website looking for something) But if they are not familiar with the concept of a portable app then they are not likely to click on that link. In other words, most people are not even aware that something like this exists and what it is called. -Rob > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
