by We’ve just completed a much-needed overhaul of the Open-ILS website. Many thanks go to Darin Givens and David Baker of the GPLS Communications Department.
If you happen to come across any broken links or other strangeness, please let us know. Thanks!
Hey, nice makeover! Kudos to Darin and David.
Not strangeness, but a few suggestions for http://www.open-ils.org/cvs.php:
1) Rename the page to /downloads.php, and alias /cvs.php to that (it was a weird name before, when the primary thing offered on cvs.php was actually tarballs & binaries with CVS coming last; now that you’re on Subversion, it’s even weirder!)
2) Reorganize the page as follows:
H1: Recommended version (1.1.x stream currently)
H2: Binaries
H3: Staff Client (get a 1.1.x Windows client out there to match the latest available tarball; point at dev.gapines.org for demo purposes)
H3: Server (maybe trim down the warnings etc here – you’re covered by the same GPL license that you’re using for the Staff Client, and hey, if the Staff Client eats your children are you going to give the kids back? I thought not! Really, the threat posed by a VMWare image is probably far less than the Staff Client…)
H2: Source
H3: Tarball (only list the latest one; put the previous releases on a separate page; maybe add the dates for the release to give an idea of freshness?)
H3: Subversion
H1: Legacy version (1.0.x stream, because you don’t really want new users building with that)
H2: Binaries
H3: Staff Client (remove verbiage about “new version” of the client because it’s not all that new anymore!)
H3: Server
H2: Source
H3: Tarball (only list the latest one; put the previous releases on a separate page; maybe add the dates for the release to give an idea of freshness?)
H3: Subversion
3) Add the commit mailing lists (YEAH!) to /listserv.php