[Onboardc-project] re: welcome page comments

[David B. <da...@xp...>]

Responding to some clarifications that Mike requested earlier (thanks Mike):

I do think that discussions should take place on this email list rather than
the web-based forum.  Email is more ubiquitous than the web (more convenient
to use on a PDA, for example). Email doesn't require a laborious login
procedure. It's easier to manage communications in multiple forums if they
are all via email.  I encourage folks to check the web forum from time to
time to see what others may have posted there, but unless many of you feel
differently I'd like to encourage people to use the list. Developers are
*definitely* encouraged to subscribe to the OnBoardC Yahoo forum
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OnBoardC) since there's probably no better
source of information about the real concerns of users. There are something
like1400 subscribers to that group now--a great user base.

Voting will be handled using the SF survey feature--at least we'll try that
at first to see how we like it.

I'll clarify these points on the Home page.

While we're on the topic of the Home page, let me put a question to those of
you who have hosted projects with SF before: how do you go about uploading
web pages on SF using CVS?  I tried to set the path in WinCVS as SF
suggested (something like /home/o/on/onboardc/) but it tries to put CVSROOT
at the end of the path and then tells me the directory doesn't exist.  I'd
really like to get some pages up there today, especially the home page and a
proposed task list we can discuss and vote on.

David


*****original message*****
david,

 1. overall really good!
     a. nice and clean looking
     b. not too complicated

 2. Administrivia section seems redundant. I think you should just move the
last sentence in
that
 section up to under the bullet point list in the developers section, and
remove this
section.

 3. I'd like to clarify -where- the developers should discuss the issues in
the welcome
page.
     a. are all discussions held in this mailing list (i.e. should not use
the web-forum)?
     b. are votes handled by email or by SF survey?
     c. should we make a note that users use the yahoo page, so developers
might want to
check that
 out every once and a while?

 4. minor page design points: (just my personal preferences)
     a. make "onboardc-project" the link to the page instead of saying "this
page"
     b. make "archive" the link to the archive instead of saying "here"
     [ links stand out by color, and if you're skimming the page, "this
page" and "here"
don't mean
 anything ]

 5. I'd be interested in why the GPL was chosen (opposed to LGPL, BSD, etc.)
as part of the
history
 section.

 that's all for now.

 [ still impatient for the source, :) ]

 mike.