[General] "4 static pages": What about screenshots?

[Mimi Yin]

Hi Jared,

Thanks for summarizing this. I had lost track of past decisions. I  
think things have changed significantly since we discussed this last.

The philosophy page is going away. We will have a single Vision  
Document that Katie, Ted, Sheila and I have been pulling together. I  
think our assumption has been that that would do fine on the wiki.

We don't have plans for a screenshots page. I believe that's been  
rolled into Pieter's Getting Started Guide, which will be static  
HTML. I imagine the screenshots on the landing page will link to the  
guide.

I'm not sure about the release notes, Sheila?
How is that different from the Feature List and Known Issues pages? I  
don't think we were planning on putting together a document with lots  
of screenshots in addition to the Guide.

So I think Landing Page and Getting Started Guide are the only 2  
static pages.

Mimi

On Jul 11, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Jared Rhine wrote:

> This email summarizes the "4 static pages" issue that came up in a  
> wiki planning meeting recently; Sheila, here's that recap I was  
> going to do.
>
> The bottom line: No worries; I've reviewed the legacy list and  
> there's nothing to flag for Preview.
>
> The issue: we've decided to put all the content we can on the wiki,  
> for ease of maintenance.  But not every single page is suited to  
> being a dynamic wiki page, for various reasons of performance,  
> design flexibility, access control, or media-embedding reasons.
>
> Pieter, in the April timeframe, did an analysis of "what pages need  
> to be static or otherwise treated differently than wiki page"?
>
> The results of that analysis were written up in the Community  
> meeting notes:
>
>   http://chandlerproject.org/Journal/CommunityMtg20070406
>
> There, Pieter references a google spreadsheet:
>
>   http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pP90TPgaKp_N8fH1RZVtiHg&pli=1
>
> with his results.
>
> He identified four pages that he thought probably should be treated  
> as static:
>
> * The landing page (http://chandlerproject.org/)
> * The philosophy page ("index to ppt & pdf documents stored on wiki")
> * The screenshots page ("big page lots of images")
> * release_notes.0.6.php ("big page lots of images")
>
> The landing page, we're still intending to be static HTML for both  
> performance and visual control reasons.
>
> The next three, "a page with lots of media", are somewhat  
> miscategorized; it's ok to embed media onto wiki pages, even video  
> and flash and Java.  For some particularly large resources, I may  
> pull IT rank and specify that the big file itself which is embedded  
> on those wiki pages should not use the standard /pub attachment  
> mechanism for performance, but we can address those as they come up.
>
> We may want a "plainer" page for a screenshots page, though we can  
> simplify the skin (really down to nothing) on any given wiki page  
> (set SKIN = plain for blank template)
>
> So Mimi, Sheila, that probably the only interesting bit from the  
> investigation: the screenshots backend.  The image links on the  
> landing page probably link to larger versions; where do they link  
> to?  I think we want a ticket for "create screenshots wiki page"?   
> Or did you have another mechanism in mind?
>
> -- Jared
>
>
>
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