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

[Sheila Mooney]

Jared...comments inline.

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/)

As you mentioned, we have already identified this as a static page -  
Mimi is working on it.

> * The philosophy page ("index to ppt & pdf documents stored on wiki")

The page that Mimi is working on is on the wiki right now. We still  
have quite a bit of content to write and refine and I recommend that  
we stick to the wiki page for Preview. We will be lucky just to get  
all the content done to be honest.

> * The screenshots page ("big page lots of images")

I believe these are simply just part of the Getting Started Guide but  
Pieter is a better person to answer that since I don't know how he is  
planning on working these in. My understanding is that they were just  
part of the guide and there wasn't some separate set of pages for this.

> * release_notes.0.6.php ("big page lots of images")

So now that the release managers ( Jared, Philippe) are writing the  
"release notes", I don't know what kind of content you have planned.  
Basically, we will have some release announcement but I would think  
it would be pretty low key - just to the mailing list etc. It's NOT  
the Preview launch. I see this page that we have used before simply  
getting replaced with the landing page, the feature list and all the  
stuff we are working on for Preview. I guess what I am saying is...I  
don't see why you guys would be preparing something like this in the  
first place and it would be simply rolled in with all the other  
documentation.

>
> 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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