Website and download confusion

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Thu Nov 12 05:22:29 EST 2009


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

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> ________________________________
> From: Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>
> To: gnucash-devel at 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
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