[Jazzplusplus-user] Website documentation updates

[D.B. M. <db...@ho...>]

Greetings to the list..(??)....


         If there's anyone still tuned in here, please say hello  (-;


Pete;

We're suffering a bit of email/timezone lag/overlap,
mostly caused my email shift, and the state of time itself.

Regarding the download link ;

To remove or not to remove?


Perhaps that decision should be judged by ramification rather than
by a quotient of how useful (or not) it might be to leave it there.

The link that is, not the actual tarball itself.

My thinking goes like this -- how did the client end up there,
looking at the jazzplusplus website? The most general answer
would be because they saw/heard/were told about jazzplusplus
from somewhere we may or maynot care about. If that were so,
it almost assures us said client has some interest or expectation
that this very software will...make them happy, leave them with
some measure of satisfaction...do (their) the job well.

Once this is all so, (and lets face it, most of the above is if-so-facto),
the website has got to give something back to the client, and a
download button (the first thing many look for) that isn't there
or which is disabled is the FULL stop. Remember, the client is
-expecting- to download something, -expecting- certain things
to be there, -expecting- a mouse click on a button to cause a 
certain thing to happen - deny them this at thy peril!!

Three 'expectings' is plenty strong magic -- even Yoda's mastery
of The Force would be in trouble here. Thus...(and I acknowledge
this might all sound absolutely daft)....the download button must
be there, and it must respond as expected . If a
tarball is there or not is probably inconsequential right now, but 
pointers back to svn instructions as an alternate, held as links
inside a passage of text explaining the current state of play, thank
-ing visitors for taking the time and interest to check jazzplusplus
out, along with some (realistic) estimation of when userland type
tarballs are expected to be available....

//// when you catch up with my 'last' email from my 'other' email acc.

....and, if it were there, pointers to other docs on the site of
other software already known to be working with devel versions
of jazzplusplus, screenshots -- the download button might not
have given the client a tarball, but it -has- given them something
and believe me, they'll remember the experience and return later.
A possible example might be that a client came looking for a
working jazzplusplus tarball, but instead walked away with a working
fluidsynth -- once you create the possibility, mathematical probability
can be relied on to time the possible effect.


Speaking of the last email from my other address, it would seem
we 'crossed the same line of thought' whilst emails crossed each
other on the wires .....great minds?

I'll wait for your reply to this before reposting ....oh, and if you'd
rather this private, that's fine too....let me know, but like this
the record shows that tere's some depth of thought going into
the revitalized jazzplusplus fork....even at this level.


I'll do a 3rd pass over things in the interim.

Donald B.

ps: excuse my impoliteness, I didn't ask if you wanted American,
or British spelling, sorry. You would have received Australian
spelling by default -- please advise which english varient you prefer
so I avoid spelling 'bolour' with a 'k'....
  
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