Start.fpo redesign - feedback required (mockup)
by Elad Alfassa
So I've been working on a start.fpo redesign, after discussing it in this
list (websites), the desktop list, the #fedora-design and #fedora-websites
IRC channels, and (as an experiment) in the Fedora community subreddit.
Using all the feedback I gathered, I present you how I think the page
should look like [0] (forgive my poor inkscape skills that made things not
quite aligned)
Points to remember:
* The search bar is unnecessary: You can use the browser address bar/search
box to search the web. Not having a search bar also removes the conflict of
having a closed source search engine in our official homepage
* Statistics from various bloggers and users suggests people use and like
the planet feed in the homepage, so it's here to stay.
* Announcements are useful, but we will remove devel-announce from the
homepage so not to confuse the average user with developer related stuff.
* Links on how to get help, wiki, and docs should be easy to find, therefor
they gained their place on the right side of the page
* Pandas are great.
[0] http://elad.fedorapeople.org/start.fpo_mockup/start.fpo-mockup.png
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-Elad Alfassa.
11 years, 6 months
[fedora-websites] #136: The build should not pull directly from transifex
by fedora-badges
#136: The build should not pull directly from transifex
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Reporter: shaiton | Owner: webmaster
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: General | Version:
Keywords: l10n | Blocked By:
Blocking: |
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It is damn slow to force pull every strings from transifex during the
build.
We should only rsync from a local folder before the build begins.
The idea could be (in any case, we need to keep track of the translations
history on a repo).
* Having a separate git repo which would be updated by a cron job (tx
pull, git add and git push). The building script will just pull or rsync
from here.
#90 will have to be updated accordingly.
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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-websites/ticket/136>
fedora-websites <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Websites>
Fedora Website Team's Trac instance
11 years, 6 months
Self Intro for Nolan Ganser
by Nolan Ganser
Hello members of the websites group. My name is Nolan Ganser and my
experience fixing html and js bugs is high, but applets (java) are not my
forte. I hope you welcome me to your team, as I will be a very constructive
member.
-Nolan Ganser
11 years, 6 months
Re: Start.fpo redesign - feedback required (mockup)
by meine
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:33:28 +0200
> From: Elad Alfassa <elad(a)fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Start.fpo redesign - feedback required (mockup)
> So I've been working on a start.fpo redesign,
+1, just to the point and effective
//meine
11 years, 6 months
[Fedora Infrastructure] #3513: Rsync read only access to FH file content
by fedora-badges
#3513: Rsync read only access to FH file content
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Reporter: lzap | Owner: webmaster
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: trivial | Milestone: HANDWAVY-FUTURE
Component: Web Content | Version:
Severity: Trivial | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
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Hello,
we would like to mirror our repositories published on FH file service
using much more efficient rsync protocol than wget -m. Simple rsync ro
setup would be awesome for us.
Thanks!
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Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3513>
Fedora Infrastructure <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure>
Fedora Infrastructure Project for Bugs, feature requests and access to our source code.
11 years, 6 months
start.fpo
by meine
I follow this list for some time now and aparently one big question seems unanswered:
what is the proper function of the start.fpo, first page when a user starts the browser?
IMO it is rather clear that the main function is aimed at the novice user, assisting her/him
- to like Fedora
- get help easily
- get background information on Fedora, Linux, FOSS
more experienced users will change the start page to a personal setting anyway...
I agree that the present start.fpo can be seen as a bit over-complete, has a lot of scary infos and links on it, at least for novice users I guess -- it took me too rather long to start using IRC ;) and indeed Firefox already has a standard search bar.
reducing start.fpo to the essential minimum a novice user might appreciate I very much like https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/File:Start.fpo-mockup-elad.png
+ not only an extended search field, but very useful options to search the package database (Fedora, can I do the things I want to do with it? how is it called?) and wiki (backgrounds)
+ links to the user guide, ask.fedora and a place to join
-/+ the announcements Fedora weekly are rather techish, but a new Fedora user can also be a techie
the bears I don't know but they surely underline what is in the balloon above and they probably look beter than a rough drawn Tux.
novice users might have questions about what software to use. they simply don't know the names of open source alternatives. pointing to a website like www.osalt.com might help them converting.
on the help-thing I'd suggest linking to ask fedora as well as to fedoraforum.org because this is an excellent place to get help and be treated with respect (in all 3 years with stupid questions I never got flamed). the only problem here is that fedoraforum.org is officially not affiliated with Fedora, but when no one has a problem with it...
on the search engine on start.fpo I argumented some time ago to use DuckDuckGo instead because it doesn't track you and Google has some strangish policies regarding privacy and openness. not directly something Fedora stands for. on the other hand if Google lowers the threshold maybe we should skip politics...
for further background reading and exploring Linux i'd suggest links to fedoraproject.org (you can get a new/different version) and www.linux.com because it has some good pages on software and support (http://www.linux.com/learn)
BFN
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//meine
11 years, 6 months
