[Mageia-webteam] [Bug 1541] Sync the release notes with the release notes wiki page

[Ahmad Samir]

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541

--- Comment #5 from Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> 2011-06-03 19:57:30 CEST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > Please sync the release notes http://mageia.org/en/1/notes/ with the wiki page
> > http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?do=show&id=iso1%3Amageia1_release_notes
> > 
> > The added parts are some more entries in these sections:
> > Web Browsers and email clients
> > Multimedia Applications
> 
> That is: adding these sections, and making those translated in 20 locales? We
> can if that's really the last change, but I am not sure we can afford to
> update/translate the www pages every week for that.
> 

Your call, I don't manage the www pages :)

IIRC, the release notes have always been a wiki page in mdv, that's an optimum
model...

FWIW, the multimedia section was created as a consequence of reading a forum
topic where a user asked "why isn't vlc in the repos?"; it was a reminder, I
did have it in my todo to add a multimedia section (multimedia support == more
users IMO), just totally forgot (and unfortunately it wasn't spotted by anyone
else).

> > (And, actually there shouldn't have been two pages... this divides the
> > attention of people working on the one or the other :/;
> 
> Right, but this has been suggested/asked several times before the release.
> 

I haven't seen such that suggestion; one caveat of having a web page vs. a wiki
page, is restricted access, for example I can touch the wiki but not www.

> > agreed the wiki page doesn't look too pretty, but still..).
> 
> Then for next time, we should rethink the release notes document type in the
> end, because of its size and format in its current form. Making it more
> automatic (fetching versions & names of important packages), split into several
> sub pages, really designed to make it more esay to grasp and read.
> 

Sure; however I am not good with designing stuff, I can contribute to the raw
release notes, then the web team can divide and split it to their hearts'
content.

> And we would have needed to add a Google Analytics marker to the wiki so we
> know if people actually do read these notes.

Sure, I'd like that too, if people don't read it, I shouldn't my time trying to
make write a good page and also shouldn't waste translators' time working on
it...

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