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Bug 315874

Summary:	Nova template lacks "About" link
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	Eclipse Management Organization <emo>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	wayne.beaton, webmaster
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Stephan Herrmann

2010-06-05 08:44:42 EDT

When creating a project web site based on the Nova templates
you will periodically get this automatic email:

* Project home page (projecturl = http://www.eclipse.org/objectteams/) does
not have an "About <project>","About This Project" or "Information about
<project>" link. Projects are required to provide that standard link on
their home page (see
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/standard-link-on-home-page.php) .
The 'About' link should point to this URL: 
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=tools.objectteams

Some projects have worked around this issue by tweaking the navigation bar
which initially links to various top-level pages from www.eclipse.org to
pointing to project specific pages. This however seems wrong because those
links will overlap with the big buttons labeled "Download", "Support",
"Documentation", "Getting Involved" and it will be impossible to navigate
to any pages from www.eclipse.org outside the project.
(Examples: Xtext, b3, jgit)

If all projects are required to have an "About" link on their homepage their
should be a uniform way of doing this which should be part of the template.

Additionally, specifically for the Object Teams the reverse link from the 
project summary to the project home page is not shown, although the project_url
is correctly set in the project's meta data.

Comment 1 Eclipse Webmaster

2010-06-08 09:14:32 EDT

Wayne, this sounds like an EMO process type issue.  Do we still require these links?

-M.

Comment 2 Wayne Beaton

2010-06-08 15:34:08 EDT

I believe we do. Yes.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2010-06-09 10:59:10 EDT

Ok, I thought so.  

I've just added the 'standard' about link to the 'default' page.  For reference here is the code:

<p> Want to know more? <a href="/projects/project_summary.php?projectid=my.project">About This Project</a> </p>

-M.