2009/11/11 Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be>: > Hi, > > There have been a couple of messages on the user list lately about people > mistakenly downloading the development version instead of the stable version. > > Cause of this appears to be the news page that prominently shows the new > (unstable) releases, while the latest stable release is more down on the same > news list. > > I am currently looking at the website's sources to see if I can improve on > this. I think I can. > > I propose to make the following changes: > > 1. The "Download" section in the menu: > I propose to split this menu in two subsections: "Stable (2.2.x)" and > "Unstable (2.3.x)" and have download links below both of these two pointing to > the relevant download locations.
In addition could I suggest a prominent button at the top of the home page labeled Download Stable Version or something similar, that takes one to the appropriate download location. Colin > > 2. News topics > I propose to add some additional style to the unstable release news topics to > make it more visible that these releases are in fact development releases. The > text explains this nicely, but it doesn't jump out. I intend to include the > complete "WARNING - WARNING - ... " block in a more visual alert box preceded > by an exclamation mark, or stop sign or... > > I have some questions before I start though: > > * Browsing through the page, I notice there are several download locations for > GnuCash. There is > a. sourceforge.net > b. www.gnucash.org > c. ftp.at.gnucash.org > > These three are all used in the Download menu section. The news sections > mostly contain a link to gnucash.org, or sometimes even an additional link to > an external site. > > Personally, I think this is confusing. Secondly, I'd like to know which link > is preferred. I would think Sourceforge.net, as that would limit the bandwidth > on www.gnucash.org. SF is also the first link under Downloads, which makes me > believe it is indeed preferred. > > But if so, wouldn't it be better to provide the SF link in the release news > items as well ? > > * I wonder about the release news items. How are they generated ? I know that > with each release, the release message is posted on the ml as well, but that > edition is text-only. So I'm wondering if the news pages can be manually > edited or are they generated by some script that parses the text-only release > message from somewhere ? > > Regards, > > Geert > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
