On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 10:53 -0400, Donald Fischer wrote: > No ulterior motive here; getting our ducks in a row and the prototype > page set up took longer than we anticipated but I wanted to push to > make the deadline to try it in Test2 rather than delaying to Test3. I wasn't suggesting an ulterior motive. I was more suggesting that last minute changes like this have gotten us a lot of bad flack before. You may not remember the 'tracking image' fiasco but it was not much fun. > Not done yet, but there is minimal text to be translated on the start > page itself and the third party search services that we'd build on are > widely internationalized. We'd use the regular Fedora documentation > i18n workflow for the necessary translations, I suppose. okay - not sure how this fits in with the translation freeze, though. > Red Hat will pay for the incremental server and bandwidth so that it's > not an additional cost burden competing with existing Fedora project > expenses. Open to discussing the governance model the server itself, > presumably we could handle it like other Fedora infrastructure > services. At present it's just a static web page and a few images; in > the future we anticipate also having a hosted results page that would > be a simple JSP. If we handle it like the other fedora infrastructure services then JSPs are a non-starter. Especially considering we do not, yet, have a free java on our server installs. Moreover, the consensus of the infrastructure group has been repeatedly, "no" to all things java. Mainly b/c of the non-free java but also b/c of the tumbling morass that is all things java on websites. > I hear you, definitely think we could look at doing various things > here and the online desktop team has the resources to do so. When we > tried out some workarounds for this issue, the general feeling was > that we might be trying to be too smart for our own good (e.g. how > long should you wait before you decide that the user is offline vs. > has a slow connection?) Fielding in a test release sooner than later > would give us some real data about what this issue actually looks like > in the field. But it won't give us any real data about our offline users. They don't download test releases b/c of the limited bandwidth they have. -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
