[Bf-webcontent] why "what's new" link in front page directly points to wiki?

[marco ardito]

Hi Pablo,

I just pointed out that because I am, currently, mantaining new/old 
"features" pages, and obviously that jumped to my attention :)
"...it is a boring job, but somebody has to do it..."

I usually start building a new "new features" page since a test release 
comes out, and try to mix the most relevant content form that wiki 
release log with most relevant (and catchy if possible)  pictures I find 
there, or elsewhere, or I use the test build to get them, and I need the 
splash screen too!

[The worst part is that from my location, at least, editing the website 
is a PITA, terribly slow, and also a bunch of CSS properties I need to 
fix for those pages which, since I know nearly nothing on the website 
CSS architecture, I am currently putting in the WP page code itself, but 
WP tends to remove all that code sometimes... I need help for this, just 
in case.]

So, whoever makes the switch from the old to the new version on the 
website/downloads could just notify (currently) me, maybe here, in order 
to make sure the features page is ready. An official deadline defined in 
advance could help to plan the work, probably. Maybe there is one, 
somewhere, and I just don't know. I do this in my spare free time at job 
and I can't join all developers meeting in IRC, but I read reports of 
them on BN, usually :)

Btw, as usual, the new page will take the place of the old, and the old 
one will go in the "past-releases" features pages, like
http://www.blender.org/features/past-releases/ (all past releases)
http://www.blender.org/features/past-releases/2-70/

the current 2.72 draft page is http://www.blender.org/?page_id=19272 
...hey I just noted the WP page ID is (not intentionally) ending with 272 :D
This needs only the new splash screen and a last minute revision, to fix 
typos and shape texts better.

Until now, I usually coordinated this work by email with Francesco 
Siddi, but I would also prefer there was (here or elsewhere) a shared 
"workflow" for such tasks, which are quite simple but need some level of 
sync, apparently. I coud post progresses here, if needed.

Thanks, Marco

Il 21/09/2014 21:39, Pablo Vazquez ha scritto:
> Hi,
>
> Link: Fixed it. Keep in mind that the Blender version number is a 
> variable (set on the Download page), I'm using that to build the link 
> to /features/version-number. So we should have /features/2-72 ready or 
> at least published before actually changing the number on the Download 
> page the day of the release. Otherwise this will point to a 404. For 
> example: 2.72 for the Wiki already exists ( 
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.72 ), but 
> /features/2-72/ doesn't.
>
> Button: Yeah, FF and WebKit behave different on certain transitions, 
> so disabled it for now until I have time to implement it in a 
> cross-browser way.
>
> Thanks for reporting!
>
>
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> 2014-09-19 13:42 GMT+02:00 marco ardito <ardito at apiform.to.it 
> <mailto:ardito at apiform.to.it>>:
>
>     the blender.org <http://blender.org> web site main page has a
>     blender 2.71 quick download
>     button-like field
>     on the right of this button-like field there is a "what's new" link,
>     which points directly to the wiki release note page for that release.
>
>     what's the point in linking that page instead of the "features"
>     subpage
>     http://www.blender.org/features/2-71/ which, btw, points to the above
>     wiki page for more details?
>
>     btw, that button-like field and the links on the right, also "move"
>     fuzzily on mousover, on my FF/IE
>     --
>     *Marco*
>
>
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