Netinstall download info

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 09:28:32AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 09/16/2015 09:12 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >Matthew Miller pointed me at this bug:
> ><https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1263565>
> >
> >The OP had to drop back to a netinstall when he had a bad experience
> >with the KDE spin.  If there are some problems with a spin, certainly
> >the responsible SIG can work on solving that.  But in thinking about
> >the reporter's comments about finding netinstall: perhaps it would
> >make sense for the spin site to include an unobtrusive pointer to
> >Workstation or Server netinstall ISO.  This might be analogous to the
> >Other Downloads section found on the Server and Workstation download
> >pages.  Thoughts?
> 
> I don't think it makes sense for individual spins to point to the
> netinstalls: the spins sites set up an expectation you're going to get a
> specific spin, and the netinstall doesn't do that for you without additional
> work.
> 
> What I think might work:
> 
> - Create a nice & cleanly-designed image listing on top of something like
> download.fpo or alt.fpo with images like netinstalls or DVDs or the minimal
> image that aren't specifically tied to a specific Fedora edition / spin /
> lab, but are more generically "Fedora."
> 
> - Link to this generic download site in the common footers on all of these
> sites, and give a hint/tip about it in the downloads area of the edition /
> spin / lab sites as appropriate.
> 
> I do think the level of prominence of the netinstall images makes sense on
> the workstation page despite the fact they are not tightly coupled (people
> had been going to the server page to get netinstall images to install
> workstation before we added those links IIRC.) I don't know that netinstall
> images specifically need that level of prominence on the spins download
> pages. What I'd recommend there instead is just a simple link, "Looking for
> other options to install Fedora?" or something like that.
> 
> Does that make sense?

I think I follow you.  Do you think it's possible to accomplish this
site by drawing from the same site-wide definitions file we use for
getfedora.org?  I mean, where we define things like the image sizes,
etc.  It would be awesome to create as little ongoing maintenance cost
as possible over top of existing pages.

Of course, deliverables often rearrange location from release to
release.  So that might be a vain hope, but I guess the goal should at
least be to house and maintain such content from within the fedora-web
repo.

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