On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:01 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > > > That may be a problem, indeed. Perhaps it helps to use different colors > > > for the row background (which may destroy the web design), or to use two > > > or three separate tables? > > > > Neither of those would address the problem of discouraging the casual > > browsing. They would merely be another kind of admonition. IMHO the > > tables should be on different pages, with the table of published docs > > being prominent and the table of drafts... well, somewhere *less* > > so. :-) > > However, we miss potential contributors if we deliberately hide the > drafts. That's a good point. > Instead, think of going to download.fedora/fc<version>/ and seeing these > choices: > > core/ > updates/ > rawhide/ > > If you choose something called rawhide/, that's what you get. > > We can only go so far in protecting people from themselves before we > start to serve less good because of all the protective measures. Shame on me! I usually try to quash this tendency. > The table with different columns for complete and draft might be a good > way to do this. Or two lists, above and below each other, with the > finished on the top, and the drafts on the bottom. > > Also, this page needs to be manually populated, right? Just creating > Docs/Drafts/Foo doesn't need to put it in the table of choices. When > something is ready, as per the editor discretion, it is added to the > list of drafts on Docs/. > > People wandering the Wiki will find pages in Docs/Drafts/ marked with > lots of "TIGERS BE HERE". At that point, we have done what we can. If > they want to jump off the cliff to test their new wings, so be it. I put sample admonitions on the pages I created earlier... those seem to be plenty of warning to me. (Anyone is welcome to sanitize them if desired.) I yield! -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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