New users confused about Spins' Names

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Mon Dec 1 14:01:13 UTC 2008


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 11:46 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>> If I'm a user and I don't know where to go, the reality is, I go to 
>> google.
>>
>> type in 'fedora torrents' the first hit is torrent.fp.o - so that page 
>> needs to be relatively clear to users.
>>
>> Saying "We've already lost" doesn't help the reality at all, which is 
>> google directs. Let's work w/i the reality.
> 
> Glad we put so much effort into making get.fedoraproject.org so useful.
> 
> If people want better descriptions for the spins, the spin owners are
> going to have to provide those as part of the feature process to become
> a hosted spin for a release.  The amount of feedback and interaction
> between spin owners and releng when composing the spins, and feedback
> after spins went live for beta/preview/etc.. was appallingly
> non-existent in most cases.

Is the goal to add a better description on the torrents page, or have 
the get.fedoraproject.org "See all custom Spins" redirect to some place 
else? I would assume the latter.

-- bk





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