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Re: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic
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Ralf Hemmecke |
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Re: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic |
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Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:52:26 +0200 |
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Hello Gaby,
[Wiki-Frontpage]
For example, I was looking for research papers related to Axiom. I
knew they were buried deeply somewhere in the hierarchical pages.
I agree with Gaby, the FrontPage is missing some information that I
would like to find there. So I added some questions to the FAQ section.
If everyone would enter questions there (yes just questions other people
might answer), then that would be a way to know what people are looking
for and modify the FrontPage accordingly.Unfortunately, I could not come
up with a better suggestion. I think Bill did a great job. Thank you,
Bill. But Gaby, imagine you have to design the FrontPage yourself. Maybe
that seems simple, but the links you put there should lead to some
reasonable content.
| http://portal.axiom-developer.org/refs
Yes, I do.
| Maybe this deserves a link on the Axiom Wiki FrontPage?
I agree. Maybe it should be called "related literature" in the
documentation section.
yes, layout. I think the color is OK.
I think, layout and color is OK. I am more concerned with the contents
of the left and right columns.
For example, I quite dislike the Download section. Newcomers don't have
any idea what we mean by Gold and Silver branch. Although personally, I
find gold and silver quite nice, but in general it is more clear if we
call this "stable" and "unstable" for the general public.
Think about what you would like.
(1) Precompiled binaries
(2) Sources (as .tgz and tar.bz2 and .zip)
(3) CVS/SVN/Arch access
(4) Browse sources online
All of that would refer to the stable (gold) release of the sources.
(1) Precompiled binaries
The corresponding page would just list the binaries and some note of how
to install them.
(2) Sources (as .tgz and tar.bz2 and .zip)
(3) CVS/SVN/Arch access
Maybe these two points could be just one and be called "Sources".
The corresponding page would first tell people about stable=gold,
unstable=silver then have a section "Gold" and "Silver".
The Gold section comes with subsections
"Tarball" where the links to tgz and tar.bz2 and .zip are given
directly, and
"Repository access" where it is described that we have CVS and TLA
archives of GOLD and an algorithm (shell commands) of how to access the
sources. Additionally, it should be stated that for contributing to
Axiom one should use the Silver branch. (I know that could be argued.)
See
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/SandboxAxiomSources
and tell me what you think.
(Could one have a table of contents at the top of that page?)
(4) Browse sources online
That should be something like the "Online Source" that currently exists.
But if you press "Online sources" currently it leads to
/mathaction/axiom--test--1/
I know it is irrelevant, but the "test" in the name is misleading. The
page http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/axiom--test--1/FrontPage
(and archive) should rather be called "Axiom-Stable". Yes, not the same
naming conventions as the tla archive. Bill, if you could write on top
of that page that people are browsing the latest stable release, that
would be wonderful.
I think the "Build Axiom" entry under download is unnecessary. There
should be just a link from the "AxiomSources" page to the BuildAxiom
page. And the BuildAxiom page should be cleaned up a bit.
Ralf
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/08/01
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic,
Ralf Hemmecke <=
- RE: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic, Page, Bill, 2006/08/01
- RE: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic, Page, Bill, 2006/08/03
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic, Gabriel Dos Reis, 2006/08/03
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic, Martin Rubey, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic, Antoine Hersen, 2006/08/04
- Re: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic, Martin Rubey, 2006/08/04
- RE: [Axiom-developer] Front page esthetic, Bill Page, 2006/08/04