On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > Am 07/28/2013 01:56 PM, schrieb janI: > >> On 28 July 2013 13:47, Marcus (OOo)<marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: >> >>> Am 07/28/2013 12:37 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: >>> >>>> 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/<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/<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. >>>> >>> >>> To have a visible impression see here: >>> >>> >>> http://ooo-site.staging.**apache.org/download/test/**index.html<http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index.html> >>> >> >> +1, is "portings" the right word ? my dictionary suggest "ports", but I >> am >> no native speaker. > > > Hm, my favorite online dictionary says "portings". ;-) Let's see what our > native speakers will say. >
"ports" is more usual in a software context. But "portable" is ambiguous, since it means two things: 1) capable of being ported to multiple platforms. 2) something you can carry. Since we offer portable code, ports of the binaries and a portable version, it is hard to avoid confusion here ;-) -Rob > Marcus > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
