Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:36:47 +0200 From: Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <garys@opusnet.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Restructure the Contributors article Message-ID: <1126535807.582.90.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> In-Reply-To: <hmk6hmo0h6.6hm@mail.opusnet.com> References: <1126506523.582.18.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <hmk6hmo0h6.6hm@mail.opusnet.com>
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On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 06:54 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Joel Dahl <joel@automatvapen.se> writes: > > > Objections? > > I gotta agree with whoever who put the Donors Gallary first, before > the rest of the file, which is about as interesting as a telephone > book. People looking for information can easily scroll or search. I disagree. > Having it at the front were people will see it, even if they are just > looking at the page to see what it's about (which may be their only > look at it), serves the good purpose of thanking the donors and thus > encouraging other to donate. I think it's safe to bet that the core > team doesn't need the encouragement of top billing. Have you looked at the FreeBSD.org frontpage? I quote: "It is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals" The last part is a link to this article. This is confusing, since people that follows this link probably expects some kind of information about our developers, certain teams, etc, not a bunch of old donor entries. > A change that would be an improvement would be to order the donations > with the most recent first. That could be done within the categories > or better, IMO, with the categories removed and noted in each entry. Perhaps you didn't read my mail. It's outdated. "All" current donations can be viewed at http://www.freebsd.org/donations/donors.html -- Joel - joel at FreeBSD dot org
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