From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:47:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87r2qj1d6o.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87inc0gzoz.fsf@elephly.net> <863732wf9z.fsf@gmail.com> <87efmm70re.fsf@elephly.net> <87r2qm3rfv.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38457) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1edGuL-0007Qd-3A for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 09:47:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1edGuK-0001aa-0i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 09:47:41 -0500 In-reply-to: <87r2qm3rfv.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, George myglc2 Clemmer , sirgazil Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> It seems unfortunate to me that we have one shared website for GuixSD >> and Guix. As much as I love GuixSD, I think Guix is the main =E2=80=9Cp= roduct=E2=80=9D >> and GuixSD would need to be moved to a subsite. That=E2=80=99s primaril= y >> because GuixSD can be explained in terms of Guix, but explaining Guix as >> =E2=80=9Cthe package manager we use for GuixSD=E2=80=9D seems less helpf= ul. [=E2=80=A6] >> My proposal is to keep https://gnu.org/s/guix focussed on Guix the >> functional software environment manager, and have the distro under >> https://gnu.org/s/guix/distro. >> >> What do you think? > > In principle I think it=E2=80=99s a good idea. In practice I=E2=80=99m n= ot sure what > this would look like, though. > > For instance, does that mean /distro would be a =E2=80=9Csecond home page= =E2=80=9D, with > screenshots, contacts, blog entries, baseline, and all? Or would it be > different? What would be remove from or add to the actual home page? I think of /distro as just a leaf page, not a whole website on its own. - The logo in the menu bar should be the Guix logo. The GuixSD logo could be shown in the contents of the /distro page. - The menu should probably have an item for GuixSD - The screenshots are applicable to GuixSD only, in my opinion, so they don=E2=80=99t make much sense on the Guix home page. I guess we could ha= ve Guix-only text =E2=80=9Cscreenshots=E2=80=9D to show the command-line use= r interface. - I=E2=80=99d remove the =E2=80=9CAll packages=E2=80=9D button from =E2=80= =9CDiscover GuixSD=E2=80=9D - =E2=80=9CGNU Guix in other GNU/Linux distros=E2=80=9D is a great section = that should link to the Guix package manager=E2=80=99s home page. - I would remove the blog, contact, and =E2=80=9CGuixSD and GNU Guix in you= r field=E2=80=9D sections from the distro sub-page to avoid duplication. - The two sites should have separate Download sections. =E2=80=A6 and as I imagine these changes I become confused about how to lin= k to these two download pages. Having a single =E2=80=9CDownload=E2=80=9D link = at the top bar would not work when we want to offer separate pages for GuixSD and Guix. We could have /distro/download, which would be linked from the /distro page, just like we currently have /download linked from right after the introduction. It would have to be a very prominent button, shown =E2=80=9Cabove the page fold=E2=80=9D so that we can drop the =E2=80= =9CDownload=E2=80=9D item from the menu bar. The download page for GuixSD should offer the GuixSD options first and link to the Guix download page ater the options =E2=80=94 and vice versa. (I=E2=80=99m not as sure about these proposed individual changes as I am ab= out the proposal to separate the pages for Guix and GuixSD.) -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net