oVirt site organization

[Dave Neary]

Hi Alon,

On 12/18/2012 07:59 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Not sure this is the right list...

It will do to begin :-) We had design discussions on arch@ before, and 
implementation decisions here.

> I think that there is a gap from what user(and developer) expects to see in open source (or any) site and what we have.
>
> We are missing "Support" category, there we should have the user lists and a link to bugzilla, and some bugzilla links for reports (opened bugs for example).

My thinking re "Support" is that it could be a good addition - currently 
"Documentation" and "Community" answer the use-case "Help! I'm stuck" - 
plus, of course, the integrated search box. My only concern is that we 
already have 6 top-level menu items, and adding another one would make 
things worse from a usability point of view. Perhaps "Support" could 
replace one of the other top-level menu items - but which one?

> We are missing "Source" category, a clear place of how to obtain the source, as we do not have proper gitweb with list of projects, at least link to http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/admin/projects/.

On "Source" I don't really think it is a top-level menu item. There is a 
much better argument for "Support" or "Get help".

There is a general ergonomics rule of thumb that top-level categories 
should not be more than 5 or 6, and not be fewer than 3 or 4 - even 6 is 
giving the user a lot of choice and a lot of things to read, and if you 
only have 2 items, you're better off avoiding a header altogether and 
designing your page around those 2 categories. So I'm happy having "Get 
the source code" under "Develop" and under "Download".

We don't have a good page on getting the source code right now - the 
process is different for Node, Engine, VDSM, etc. This might be a good 
community project for someone.

> Community is not a proper word for "Mailing lists", first thing I look is for "list" in the home page and I expect it to be there, the term "Have conversations on our mailing lists" is not something common although it may be good English.
>
> At http://www.ovirt.org/Mailing_lists, I expect the term "Full index of mailing list" instead of "the oVirt mailman page".
>
> In the "the oVirt mailman page" we are missing vdsm lists.


On the location of the mailing lists: The Community page could perhaps 
be improved. There is a lot of text right now, and we can definitely 
improve on it and make the actions available much more prominent. 
Suggestions are welcome!

On the VDSM mailing lists being missing from the oVirt mailman page, 
this is a consequence of the list being hosted on fedorahosted - 
suggested improvements to the text are appreciated.

Thanks for the feedback, Alon!

Cheers,
Dave.

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