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From: Niclas Hedhman <niclas@hedhman.org>
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Subject: Re: More site questions
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:47:51 +0800
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On Wednesday 16 June 2004 02:18, Farr, Aaron wrote:

> 1. Site update process:  any plan?

We are pushing for a site release late this week, as noted in an earlier mail 
from Steve.

> 2. Download page:  Perhaps we could just have links to the central ASF
> download cgi -- http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/avalon/

I think I have already created a download.xml that becomes the same as the 
previous download.html (with the new look), but haven't tested yet.

> 3. I just committed a change to the style sheet for default hyperlinks. 
> Let me know if you hate it. :)

Will check later... :o)

> 4. Javadocs are missing.  A nice solution would be a central location for
> javadocs.  Perhaps a page that links to javadocs of various versions.  I'm
> thinking something like:

> http://avalon.apache.org/central/javadocs.html  <-- central links to api's
> http://avalon.apache.org/api/${package}/${version}

We have done some thinking, and you have a good point!
 [suite]/[version]/[api]/ ---> symlink for current [suite]/[api]

> 5. Legacy docs.  Phoenix docs shouldn't be deleted.  They don't need to be
> converted to the new form, but they shouldn't disappear either.  Actually,
> what we need is a "legacy" page that explains where things like Fortress,
> Phoenix, and Excalibur are for people who come to Avalon looking for them.
>
> 6. I'd expect to find links to the general documentation and tutorials
> under or linked from Products and not Central.  I imagine there will be
> other users feeling the same way.   Perhaps we need something on the very
> front page that can help users navigate to the right sections.
>
> I'm sure I'll have some other thoughts too.
>
> J. Aaron Farr
>   SONY ELECTRONICS
>   STP SYSTEMS
>   (724) 696-7653
>
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