Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
After reading
http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2007/09/07/mirror-manager-look-n-feel/
, I wanted to share a few quick thoughts.
While the mirror list that we have in place now does look much better,
we generally shouldn't exposing this to end users at all. EPEL comes
in top of Fedora in the mirror list filter and shows all the versions
of Fedora including the ancient versions which probably should move
into a separate page for archived releases.
I saw that on http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/ I think it
looks great. There are a couple of comments related to the ordering and
making it more obvious which is the current release. And we shouldn't
be exposing users to the public mirror list? I disagree, especially
during release time people need to figure out which mirrors work (many
of them get overwhelmed) and the public list is kept fairly accurate
because of its checks and when a user gets to a mirror that is too slow
for them, they can take a closer look.
The mirror list filter should point people to the actively maintained
releases or just the latest release. Most users would use EPEL via the
repository release package and not download individual packages from
the mirrors and hence should be below Fedora.
The front page of Fedora should feature a prominent download button
leading to a easy choice of spins, architecture and region in simple
plain language.
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download makes it much more
approachable compared to a long list of mirrors where people not
familiar with the mirror structure is bound to get confused which does
happen often.
Already being worked on as discussed here:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/74
This took quite a bit more effort then we thought, good thing we have
mdomsch on hand :)
It would also be better if all the sub domains had the same look at
feel. http://docs.fedoraproject.org still retains the old design for
example.
This is on hold as they are moving to a project from SoC, I'm not sure
of its projects. As for the rest of our projects:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/55
It's set up as an F9 target. Ricky and glezos in particular have
excelled in producing these looks. http://fedorapeople.org/
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/ and
http://hotsed.fedoraproject.org/ are just some examples of their recent
handy work. We're quite lucky to have them.
-Mike
