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Bug 338670

Summary:	Eclipse landing page based on Firefox upgrade page
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Kim Moir <kim.moir>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	ian.skerrett, nathan
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Kim Moir

2011-03-02 09:11:23 EST

My Firefox install updated this morning and after it was finished, I was presented with this page.  

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.14/whatsnew/

It's beautiful.  Not only is the graphic art amazing, but it has a great introduction to it's beta program to try out a new version of Firefox. As well, it has links to various social media and links on how to participate in the community.

Wouldn't it be great if there was a similar page for Eclipse? Thank you for upgrading Eclipse, now why don't you try out Orion or Eclipse 4.1 and provide feedback.  Obviously our upgrade process is different.  But I think it would be a fantastic way for encourage more people to participate in our community and test our current offerings.

Comment 1 Nathan Gervais

2011-03-02 09:19:33 EST

I think I see where you're going with this.  

A couple random thoughts/questions:
How would we go about triggering this?
Is this p2?  
Would the page appear in your "default browser" or would it appear inside Eclipse?  
Could the Welcome Page in Eclipse be better designed to leverage this?

Comment 2 Ian Skerrett

2011-03-02 11:15:17 EST

What if we triggered this on the download page the first time someone downloads a release?

Comment 3 Kim Moir

2011-03-03 09:42:53 EST

I think the suggestion Ian makes would be the most lightweight approach.  I'm not sure how many people look at the welcome page other than the first time they install Eclipse. I don't know if there are any numbers on this.  I'll ask one of my p2 committer friends what could be done to display a web page after update, I looked at this a bit yesterday and didn't determine how this could be done.

Comment 4 Denis Roy

2011-08-12 13:58:29 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 291487 ***