On Wednesday 11 November 2009, you wrote: > 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 > Phil,
Yes, I had already found the php script that generates the news page. I just wasn't sure about the individual news topics. That's now clear as well. I can safely change these without risking them to be overwritten by some automated script. Thanks, I'm working on it right now ! Geert > > > > ________________________________ > 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
