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Bug 199286

Summary:	Standard project information page
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	Bjorn Freeman-Benson <bjorn.freeman-benson>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	nathan, pmuellr
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
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Bug Depends on:	134275
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Description Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2007-08-08 12:36:17 EDT

Because the standardized left menu for projects (http://www.eclipse.org/projects/dev_process/project-status-infrastructure/left-menu.php)  has failed (i.e., projects are not adopting it), my new suggestion is that each project have a SINGLE standard item at the top of their left menu: "Tell Me More" or "Information" or "Resources" or ??  Clicking this will go to a www.eclipse.org/projects/details/xxx page. That page will be driven from the project information database and will contain all the standard information about the project (mailing lists, source code locations, status, upcoming releases, etc).  In other words, rather than asking each project to put all these items in their left menu, we put them all in a separate details page and then require each project to have only one link in their left menu.

Comment 1 Patrick Mueller

2007-08-08 13:16:10 EDT

Great idea.  Here are some additional thoughts:

- A link to the projects/details/xxx page should also be made available via a new column on the http://www.eclipse.org/projects/ page

- provide a way to generate a physically small version of this info in some kind of easily recognizable box, for people to include on their project page (or elsewhere).  Presumably, do something like you've done with left-menu.php, only call it project-info.php.  Not sure how extensive this info is (lists committers?), if it's large, trim it down, or limit the view via DHTML/CSS hackery.

- Extra credit: design a microformat for this information, and this content available for all the projects available via an Atom feed.  Then, I can subscribe to the "eclipse projects" feed and find out about new / changed projects.  With the microformatted text, you could then imagine some kind of microformat handler (Operator for FireFox) that could do something interesting with it.

- As sort of an aside, I'd do some homework, if you haven't already, on Google's Webmaster tools - https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/about.html - to try to make sure folks who are searching for project info like "where is project dash's cvs repo?" can be found easily in google.  If possible.

Comment 2 Nathan Gervais

2007-08-09 09:44:45 EDT

+1

I really like this idea as it will be easier to manage for the projects to have all there information in one place.

Comment 3 Denis Roy

2007-10-23 17:00:23 EDT

+1

I think this is a great idea.

Comment 4 Denis Roy

2008-05-28 13:56:20 EDT

The standard project info pages have been up for a while.  Is there anything left to do here?

Comment 5 Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2008-05-28 20:47:49 EDT

(In reply to comment #4)
> The standard project info pages have been up for a while.  Is there anything
> left to do here?

Sorry. I need to take these suggestions and open new bugs:

(In reply to comment #1)
> - provide a way to generate a physically small version of this info ...
> - Extra credit: design a microformat for this information, and this content
> available for all the projects available via an Atom feed.  ...
> - As sort of an aside, I'd do some homework, ...

and then I can close this bug. In the meantime, I will take ownership.

Comment 6 Bjorn Freeman-Benson

2008-09-17 18:27:17 EDT

New features are in bug 247750 and bug 247751