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Bug 393010

Summary: Clarify Getting Started choices
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: Carolyn MacLeod <carolynmacleod4>
Component: DocAssignee: Ken Walker <ken_walker>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: ken_walker, simon_kaegi
Version: 1.0   
Target Milestone: 3.0 M2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard:

Description Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2012-10-28 17:31:13 EDT 
The first 2 items in the Getting Started section of http://eclipse.org/orion/ are as follows:

1) Sign-Up for OrionHub
OrionHub is our hosted Orion solution created from the components developed in the open. See what Orion is all about.
Sign-Up Today

2) Download and Install Orion on your localhost
Get Orion installed and running on your own machine.
Download Now

It's not really clear that this is intended to be 1 OR 2. It could be interpreted as 1 AND 2 - i.e. sign up and then download.

It is also not clear why a newbie would choose one over the other.

It might help to have something like:
"Why choose OrionHub?"
- access, develop, and test your code from anywhere, using any device or machine
- share the code with others

"Why choose localhost?"
- develop and test your code on your own local machine
- work offline if desired

etc.
Comment 1 Ken Walker CLA 2012-10-28 17:47:57 EDT 
Sure enough the old site I remember had an "or" between those two.  But I think I can fix it with some wordsmithing.
Comment 2 Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2012-10-28 18:35:37 EDT 
The "Getting Orion" section of http://wiki.eclipse.org/Orion/Getting_Started_with_Orion
may have some useful words - it does say "You have two choices to get started with Orion." However, it's still not clear what the pros/cons of each choice might be.
Comment 3 Carolyn MacLeod CLA 2012-10-29 10:48:51 EDT 
Another reason why someone might choose to install locally is that they might like that their code is stored in files in the local filesystem.