I made a few changes to the page on the staging server. Adding the README file I think will help a lot. I was able to do just about everything in your list except for the colors. I will have to play around with the CSS in order to do that (which is a real pain in this CMS).
-Nick On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Carol Frampton <cfram...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > On 7/20/12 12 :04AM, "Nicholas Kwiatkowski" <nicho...@spoon.as> wrote: > > >The page has been posted on the staging server. If we could get a few > >people to take a peek at it to make sure it looks right, that would be > >great. A few confirmations, and I will publish it to production. > > > >http://flex.staging.apache.org/flex/download.html > > > >-Nick > > Nick, > > Thank you SO much for doing this!! > > I realized about an hour after I copied the files up that I forgot to > rename README to README.txt so that it would show on the website. It's > renamed in the staging area > (/www/www.apache.org/dist/incubator/flex/4.8.0-incubating/README.txt) but > it doesn't look like it got copied. If you can get that page visible I > think we should add a link for it under each of the RELEASE_NOTE links in > the source and binary sections. I'm sure we will update the RELEASE_NOTES > in the coming days so I'd like to know if we need to do anything special > when we change one of files (we aren't allowed to change the artifacts for > obvious reasons). > > I'm worried that people are just going to zero in on the binary section > and think they can unzip and away they go. I think we need to add a > sentence to the binary section that minimally has a link to the > Dependencies section (or I'm open to suggestions). > > If we leave the Dependencies section as is, for the optional components, > you need to make it clear that you need every one of those jars, except > flex-messaging to enable embedded font support, and you need > flex-messaging to enable BlazeDS. We should also add to the release notes > that if you try to use BlazeDS and you don't have that jar it blows up in > a rather ungraceful fashion (I can do this). > > Can we put "Please review the release notes before installing or compiling > the SDK." in that awful yellow green color you have below or perhaps a > nicer color :) > > Carol > >
