Have we tested what happens to the countdown timer when we do release? Are we going to manually change the banner or does it happen on its own?
-Mike
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 22:53 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
Have we tested what happens to the countdown timer when we do release? Are we going to manually change the banner or does it happen on its own?
I turned the time back to see, and I get text that says "Fedora 9 is here!" but no graphical banner. Mike believes that the graphic is replaced when we have confirmed the final release is actually out on the wires. Until then, maybe a placeholder? ("Hold on, F9 is coming...")
I'm just thinking about people who have put banners on their sites according to our instructions and what *their* visitors see. It sounds like the answer is "nothing bad," which is a satisfactory answer! :-)s
On 2008-04-24 12:00:54 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 22:53 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
Have we tested what happens to the countdown timer when we do release? Are we going to manually change the banner or does it happen on its own?
I turned the time back to see, and I get text that says "Fedora 9 is here!" but no graphical banner. Mike believes that the graphic is replaced when we have confirmed the final release is actually out on the wires. Until then, maybe a placeholder? ("Hold on, F9 is coming...")
I'm just thinking about people who have put banners on their sites according to our instructions and what *their* visitors see. It sounds like the answer is "nothing bad," which is a satisfactory answer! :-)s
It looks like we still need to make a final banner :).
Nicu - do you think we could make something that has a minimal impact on l10n? Perhaps we could pull a string for "Get Fedora" straight out of the PO files (I have a list of the translations for "Get Fedora" at http://ricky.fedorapeople.org/get-fedora.translations)?
Thanks, Ricky
Ricky Zhou wrote:
On 2008-04-24 12:00:54 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 22:53 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
Have we tested what happens to the countdown timer when we do release? Are we going to manually change the banner or does it happen on its own?
I turned the time back to see, and I get text that says "Fedora 9 is here!" but no graphical banner. Mike believes that the graphic is replaced when we have confirmed the final release is actually out on the wires. Until then, maybe a placeholder? ("Hold on, F9 is coming...")
On *some* of the locales I did a "0" image. While is still suboptimal (o days remaining???), it was a temporary fall-back.
I'm just thinking about people who have put banners on their sites according to our instructions and what *their* visitors see. It sounds like the answer is "nothing bad," which is a satisfactory answer! :-)s
It looks like we still need to make a final banner :).
Nicu - do you think we could make something that has a minimal impact on l10n? Perhaps we could pull a string for "Get Fedora" straight out of the PO files (I have a list of the translations for "Get Fedora" at http://ricky.fedorapeople.org/get-fedora.translations)?
Yup, I can do that quickly, or we can have something saying only "Fedora 9", as the attached image (as you can see, it also changed the look by dropping the crystals, to fit the final desktop theme).
On 2008-04-24 10:47:43 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote:
Yup, I can do that quickly, or we can have something saying only "Fedora 9", as the attached image (as you can see, it also changed the look by dropping the crystals, to fit the final desktop theme).
Cool, that looks great! Do you think we should round the corners, or just put this up?
Thanks, Ricky
Ricky Zhou wrote:
On 2008-04-24 10:47:43 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote:
Yup, I can do that quickly, or we can have something saying only "Fedora 9", as the attached image (as you can see, it also changed the look by dropping the crystals, to fit the final desktop theme).
Cool, that looks great! Do you think we should round the corners, or just put this up?
OK, here is a version with rounded corners. And also a version with indexed colors - the file size is less than half (10KB vs. 25 KB) and the drop in quality barely noticeable.
If you think this is good enough and will be used I will update the wiki page too - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/PromoBanners
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