Hello:
I have to agree with Justin's sentiments here, and would like to suggest a more marked change to the sidebar. It's less easy to implement then just changing to "Fedora Core (obsolete)", but it might make it easier for users to find what they want. It would definitely help to make clear what versions of Fedora are still officially supported.
The sidebar could look something like this (titles are just tentative):
Officially-Supported Fedora Versions |- Fedora 13 -- Fedora 12 Obsolete Fedora Versions |- Fedora 11 |- Fedora 10 ... |- Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora Core 1 Contributed Documentation (same as now) Draft Documentation (same as now)
Also, the version numbers are somewhat difficult for me to read, because of their size and colour. Including the word/s "Fedora" or "Fedora Core" in front of the numbers might also help users to visually recognize the numbers as important.
Overall, the new site seems like a huge improvement on the old one. As the number of documents grows, the ability to see everything at a glance is going to be more and more important.
Christopher Antila.
Hi all,
The recent weekly meeting of fedora docs mentioned some people are not aware of "Fedora Core" being the outdated/previous series of Fedora releases.
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-06-02/fedora_docs.2010-...
To assist with the effort to educate around this, would it be feasible to rename the "Fedora Core" heading on the docs.fp.o site to be "Fedora Core (obselete)" ?
Thinking it may be technically easy, with few (any?) bad consequences, but also helps make things clear for people who aren't sure.
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
On 06/08/2010 04:32 AM, Christopher Antila wrote:
The sidebar could look something like this (titles are just tentative):
Officially-Supported Fedora Versions |- Fedora 13 -- Fedora 12 Obsolete Fedora Versions |- Fedora 11 |- Fedora 10 ... |- Fedora Core 2 -- Fedora Core 1 Contributed Documentation (same as now) Draft Documentation (same as now)
Also, the version numbers are somewhat difficult for me to read, because of their size and colour. Including the word/s "Fedora" or "Fedora Core" in front of the numbers might also help users to visually recognize the numbers as important.
Agreed that this is even better; however sorting Fedora Core 1 through Fedora 11 in correct sequence under an "Obsolete" heading is beyond Publican's capabilities right now; we'd probably have to implement a sorting key that could be manually overridden to create arbitrary things like this. I suspect similar sorting problems will arise if we place "Fedora" in front of the version numbers (and thus create a "version" that is no longer just a number) but will investigate.
In the meantime, if you find the size and colour of the version numbers problematic, this would be a good issue to raise on publican-list[1]
Cheers
Rudi
docs@lists.stg.fedoraproject.org