RE: first (quick?) issue for the council -- fedora's default firefox page

[Rex Dieter]

I agree with you, +1 to return to start.fedora project.org

-------- Original message --------
From: Matthew Miller 
Date:11/26/2014 11:53 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: [e-mail]
Cc:
Subject: first (quick?) issue for the council -- fedora's default 
firefox page

Hi everyone! Let's get right to business. I've got a request for a
project-level decision. Up through and including Fedora 20,
http://start.fedoraproject.org/ was the default home page in Firefox.
At a community member's suggestion, that was change to be
"about:newtab" in Rawhide, and inherited into F21.

Fedora Magazine is actually getting quite a bit of traffic from
start.fpo, which means someone saw a headline there and clicked.

Generating magazine traffic is good, but even more importantly, this is
one of our key channels of communication to users. I talked to the
Fedora Marketing and websites teams and there was broad consensus that
we should go back to http://start.fedoraproject.org/. Allan Day, who
filed the original request to change.

Martin Stransky, the package maintainer, doesn't want to be changing
back and forth based on whoever filed a bug last, and asks for a
decision by Fedora governance.

I guess my own opinion is clear — I think putting it to the Fedora page
is best for the project. Because this change only affects the defaults
set the first time someone opens Firefox in a new profile, it'd be nice
to have this set by the F21 release — even though we're well into
freeze territory, so that ship has probably sailed. Do we have quick
consensus to make the change now? (If not, we'll figure out a
longer-term solution for F22.)

first (quick?) issue for the council -- fedora's default firefox page

[Robert Mayr]

2014-11-26 20:34 GMT+01:00 Rex Dieter :
> I agree with you, +1 to return to start.fedora project.org
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Matthew Miller  
> Date:11/26/2014 11:53 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc:
> Subject: first (quick?) issue for the council -- fedora's default firefox
> page
>
> Hi everyone! Let's get right to business. I've got a request for a
> project-level decision. Up through and including Fedora 20,
> http://start.fedoraproject.org/ was the default home page in Firefox.
> At a community member's suggestion, that was change to be
> "about:newtab" in Rawhide, and inherited into F21.
>
> Fedora Magazine is actually getting quite a bit of traffic from
> start.fpo, which means someone saw a headline there and clicked.
>
> Generating magazine traffic is good, but even more importantly, this is
> one of our key channels of communication to users. I talked to the
> Fedora Marketing and websites teams and there was broad consensus that
> we should go back to http://start.fedoraproject.org/. Allan Day, who
> filed the original request to change.
>
> Martin Stransky, the package maintainer, doesn't want to be changing
> back and forth based on whoever filed a bug last, and asks for a
> decision by Fedora governance.
>
> I guess my own opinion is clear — I think putting it to the Fedora page
> is best for the project. Because this change only affects the defaults
> set the first time someone opens Firefox in a new profile, it'd be nice
> to have this set by the F21 release — even though we're well into
> freeze territory, so that ship has probably sailed. Do we have quick
> consensus to make the change now? (If not, we'll figure out a
> longer-term solution for F22.)
>
> --
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> http://mattdm.org/%3E
> Fedora Project Leader  [e-mail]  <
> http://fedoraproject.org/%3E

Just for the record, websites/design teams are already planning a redesign
of the start.fpo page [1], which seems to be really appreciated by mainly
*new* users. They would miss it.

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/334