[General] [Proposal] Rationalizing our Downloads pages

[Grant Baillie]

On 12 Jul, 2007, at 12:42, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Hi Grant,
>
> I agree that the DesktopSource page could be cleaned up a bit,  
> though I feel I'm not the best person to do that. Katie/Ted, is  
> this part of your Developers Wiki efforts?

Personally, I would just be up for blowing away the red double- 
outline :o. But in any case, the highlighting of the last "Release"  
of 16+ months ago, and the associated between-the-lines kind of  
implications, will be obsolete once Preview ships.

> I think though the terminology will necessarily be different for  
> end-users versus Developers. Developers distinguish between the  
> two. End-users probably shouldn't think too objectively about this  
> kind of stuff. I always find it weird when I'm reading end-user  
> agreements and what-not. Feels like someone is watching me.  
> (Or...maybe I'm misunderstanding what your terminology comment was  
> about.)

No, you're right re: terminology.

--Grant

>
> Mimi
>
> On Jul 12, 2007, at 12:25 PM, Grant Baillie wrote:
>
>> Delicious!
>>
>> My one issue -- and I think it's probably not a big deal -- is  
>> that we have a red double-outlined box on ChandlerDesktopSource  
>> saying that the latest official Chandler release is “Release  
>> 0.6.1, 2006-02-08”. Should I consider this an incentive to get  
>> Preview out the door :) ?
>>
>> In any case, maybe the terminology in the two pages (Releases/ 
>> Milestones/Continuous vs Latest/At-Your-Own-Risk) could be synced  
>> or x-referenced better?
>>
>> --Grant
>>
>> On 12 Jul, 2007, at 10:58, Mimi Yin wrote:
>>
>>> I've pulled together 2 sets of Download pages with some help from  
>>> Bear :)
>>>
>>> Downloading Chandler Desktop and Building Chandler Desktop from  
>>> the Source Code
>>> http://chandlerproject.org/Journal/DownloadChandlerDesktop
>>> http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ChandlerDesktopSource
>>>
>>> Downloading Chandler Server and Building Chandler Server from the  
>>> Source Code
>>> http://chandlerproject.org/Journal/DownloadChandlerServer
>>> http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ChandlerServerSource
>>>
>>> I'd like to move all download links to the Developers Wiki except  
>>> for Download Chandler Desktop, which should live in the recently  
>>> deprecated Projects Wiki and display as chandlerproject.org/ 
>>> download (as per the URL plan Jared and I worked out.)
>>>
>>> Does anyone see any issues with this proposal?
>>>
>>> Mimi
>>>
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