I generate the release note and news by hand. For the news item, I create a new file in htdocs/trunk/news, and automated scripts (php?) create the gnucash page. I then trim out the HTML stuff and post it to the mailing lists.
Phil ________________________________ From: Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be> To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Sent: Wed, November 11, 2009 8:22:58 AM Subject: Website and download confusion 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. 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
