Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2004 15:50:02 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: CFD: rework of support.html Message-ID: <20040403155002.4953d2ae@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404021247200.31182-100000@pancho> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404021247200.31182-100000@pancho>
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On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:03:18 -0600 (CST) Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote: > Currently support.html takes many screens to scroll through. This, > to me, tends to obscure some introductory information at the expense > of some detailed information. > > We could diagram its structure like this: > > Table Of Contents > Mailing Lists > pointers to mailing lists > Newsgroups > pointers to newsgroups > IRC > pointers to IRC channels > [...etc...] > User Groups > long list of user groups > > The latter text takes up about 50% of the text in support.html. > My proposal would be to repocopy support.sgml to user-groups.sgml > which would then be edited down to hold only the latter text, and > place a link to it under the phrase "user groups around the world" > in the existing text in the sentence under "User Groups". > > This would affect the following translations: es, fr, ja, ru. > > What do people think? > > A related change that could be thought of (which would not need > to be part of this change) is to reorganize the listings. Right > now there is a "Rest Of The World" category which seems a little > bit Euro-centric to me; why not just make it "Asia" and "South > America"? (I'll beg the question of whether the Middle East > wants to consider itself part of a continent, or if it should > be its own category). > > The actual text items themselves would not be otherwise edited, > to avoid commingling too many changes. > > Your feedback is welcome. I want to go over this with you, but haven't had the time. Most likely I can work on this a bit Sunday or Monday. -- Tom Rhodes
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