RFC: Restructure of the front page

[Tom Rhodes]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 19:01:46 +0000
Ceri Davies <setantae at submonkey.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:31:28PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> 
> > +			    </a><small><br/>
> > +			      · <a href="smp/index.html">i386/SMP</a><br/>
> > +			      · <a href="platforms/alpha.html">Alpha</a><br/>
> > +			      · <a href="platforms/ia64.html">IA64</a><br/>
> > +			      · <a href="platforms/ppc.html">Power PC</a><br/>
> > +			      · <a href="platforms/sparc.html">Sparc</a><br/>
> > +			      · <a href="platforms/index.html">More?</a><br/>
> >  			    </small></p>
> 
> I'd rather see amd64 there than powerpc, purely because it's pretty much
> finished, and is more current hardware.

Thats a good idea, i'll make that change in the diff.

> 
> Also, I'm unsure about the "i386/SMP" bit, as it gives the impression
> that SMP is not supported on other architectures, which is not the case.

Well, we don't have an i386 project page since most development occurred
on that platform.  And I did want to list i386 somewhere.  Perhaps keep
the link and change it to i386?

> 
> > +			      · <a href="doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html">Crafting Bug Reports</a><br/>
> 
> Could that be changed to "Writing Bug Reports" please?  I don't have a
> good reason for this - I just don't like the word "crafting" in this
> context - so I'll defer to popular opinion if it goes against me. :-)

With no reasonable argument of why or why not, i'll go with your
suggestion.  At least until popular opinion changes that.

> 
> Thanks very much for making progress on this, it looks good.

Thank you for the input, perhaps we could review ideas of cleaning
up the entire site?  Nevermind, i'd rather defer that discussion
until we have a new 'homepage' in place.  :)


-- 
Tom Rhodes