From owner-freebsd-www Thu Oct 17 15:10: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-www@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24BD537B406 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:10:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C58943E42 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9HMA2x3097852 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:10:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9HMA2Xr097851; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C0C37B401 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:04:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFA943E42 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:04:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021017220423.ESZH24979.sccrmhc03.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain> for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:04:23 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9HM7AUW089758 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:07:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id g9HM74fk089755; Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:07:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Message-Id: <8wy98w4t4n.98w@localhost.localdomain> Date: 17 Oct 2002 15:07:04 -0700 From: "Gary W. Swearingen" Reply-To: swear@attbi.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: www/44181: www "Release Information" organization Sender: owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Number: 44181 >Category: www >Synopsis: www "Release Information" organization >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-www >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Oct 17 15:10:01 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gary W. Swearingen >Release: n/a >Organization: none >Environment: n/a ================ >Description: At www.freebsd.org, the organization of information related to getting and installing FreeBSD (other than the confusingly-labeled "Current" version) is rather poor, making it unnecessarily hard to find. It also omits some related introductory information to give newbies a clue. (The fix involves swapping some info between two pages, adding a little introductory info to one, and changing a couple links on the home page.) 1) The listing of "release" documents is spread across these two pages: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html "Release Information" http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes.html "Release Documentation" and mixed (on both pages) with some information about the releases themselves (as opposed to being about the release documentation). 2) The home page's "Documentation" menu doesn't have an entry for the release documentation while the "Software" menu has a link to a page which says little about software (it's almost all about documentation). The two OS-related links under "Software" are also sorely lacking in introductory material and so are rude to newbies. Finally, that "Software" menu would be easier to navigate with the software divided into "base OS" and "application/ports/packages" sub-categories (eg, by just having two such links instead of the current three). ================ >How-To-Repeat: n/a ================ >Fix: The general idea is to make relnotes.html cover the release docs and make releases/index.html cover the base OS software release: On the home page, replace the "Getting FreeBSD" and "Release Information" links under "Software" with one link to releases/index.html labeled "Base OS" or "Base Operating System" or "Operating System" or or "FreeBSD OS" or "Base FreeBSD OS" or "Base OS Distributions" or ... Under "Documentation", add a link to relnotes.html as "Release Docs". Move from releases/index.html the "Current Releases" and "Past Releases" sections into the "RELEASE versions of FreeBSD" section of relnotes.html, removing that section's first paragraph. Rework the remaining "Future Releases" section of releases/index.html to remove the redundant schedule information but say that the schedule is at releng/index.html . Add to the same page an "Introduction" section with a brief introduction of the concept of "distributions" and "releases", etc. and refer to the handbook's section on the subject. Add another section on "Getting FreeBSD" with a brief intro to getting FreeBSD distributions and refer to the handbook's with the "Getting FreeBSD" link now on the home page. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-www" in the body of the message