Rockbox General > Announcements
Redesign of the www.rockbox.org front page
pondlife:
I really like the dynamic-width version, very nice.
A couple of very minor points (both IMHO):
- The lifebelt icon for the manual seems odd - a book or PDF-ish icon would be better.
- Could the subversion stuff fit alongside the wiki and mailing lists? Just include the timestamp and description (adding revision and user if there's room). That would give a consistent 3 column layout for most of the page.
pondlife
DancemasterGlenn:
--- Quote from: Llorean on April 30, 2009, 04:26:49 AM ---The other alternative is having someone manually update news often enough that we're never more than a week without at least something on the front page to show work is going on.
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For what it's worth, I think this would be a very nice idea. It might be beneficial to people (both people not familiar with svn, and people who haven't checked back in a while and don't have time to wade through it) if more announcements were made of changes to the code. While touting bug fixes and experimental features in the daily builds might (possibly) wind up having more inexperienced people borking their players, anyone who sees something they have a problem with fixed in the announcements might be more likely to test said features out, rather than just installing the latest stable.
EDIT: This is obviously not to say that EVERY update would be announced, just anything deemed critical by the devs (assumed to be larger bug fixes, but that's up to the implementer of said idea)
It has the potential to backfire, and might not have been what you meant by keeping announcements up to date, but it's what was in my mind when you said it.
As a final note, I would say that svn is more important in being easily accessed than the wiki changes, but that's obviously as a non-developer. Even if my opinion mattered there, I don't think svn would fit where wiki changes is on the mockup, and especially not beside it... it's going to need a lot of horizontal room to display right, even if you take out everything but the description and submitter. I still like the roll-out menu very much.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: GodEater on April 30, 2009, 04:31:38 AM ---My fear is that now that we have a "friendly face" to Rockbox, with the Utility for doing nice easy installs, and release versions that are actually up to date - we risk scaring new users (especially non-technical ones) with what they will likely see as a constant stream of techno babble on the front page.
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Is that really a problem? Do we care if we scare away a few non-technical users? Is there any possible consequence to intimidating whatever small percentage of people are uncomfortable around SVN web interfaces? I am willing to argue that there is not. I am willing to argue that such people are irrelevant.
Conversely, there is a very clear negative impact to this project if we make it any less friendly or accessible to new developers or even new technical users who are not yet developers. The front page should be accessible to everyone, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be aimed at technical users and developers. The web interface should help people who may not have done open source development, who have not used SVN or who are not familiar with what kind of work we do get a look at how our project is run and perhaps decide to look more carefully at it.
froggyman:
--- Quote from: saratoga on April 30, 2009, 01:02:50 PM ---
Is that really a problem? Do we care if we scare away a few nontechnical users? Is there any possible consequence to intimidating whatever small percentage of people are uncomfortable around SVN web interfaces? I am willing to argue that there is not.
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I don't think it will scare away the nontechnical users away. I have gotten a ton of my friends to use rockbox (that are definitely not good with computers) and they found it somewhat interesting seeing what kind of development is going on with rockbox. There were also a few who saw it, didn't understand it and didn't care about it/ignored it. I even know some people that know absolutely no programming but still liked to see that the rockbox's software is being updated several times a day.
I do like the idea of putting something by the subversion area saying that it is part of rockbox's development and think that would help people at least make sense of what it actually is if they do get confused about it.
saratoga:
--- Quote from: psycho_maniac on April 30, 2009, 06:20:48 PM ---i dont mean to do this but what if we had a wiki page link like how ipodlinux does? i do like how it is on the front page though as thats the first thing i check when i go to rockbox.org. I dont mean to compare the two because there different programs but i do like how rockbox tells you what it is on the front page as ipl does not. maybe its not a good idea what i proposed?
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I cannot parse this.
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