Re: [boost] [1.35.0] Keeping home pages in sync

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-20 08:39:15

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Beman Dawes wrote:
>> Beman Dawes wrote:
>>> We've now got two home pages - one for the web site and one for the 
>>> boost-root tree.
>>>
>>> We need to figure out how to keep the two in sync without totally 
>>> duplication of effort.
>> That's probably completely wrong! These two home pages serve different 
>> purposes. The content should be divergent.
> 
> I can't figure out if you are responding to yourself  or not :-)
> 
>> * The web site home page provides our World-wide Web presence. That's 
>> the place for news and other rapidly changing content, and as an 
>> introduction for first-time visitors.
> 
> Yep.
> 
>> * The release home page is the gateway to the release, and needs content 
>> focused on that role. For the rapidly changing stuff, it should just 
>> refer to the world-wide web home page.
> 
> Yep.
> 
>> I've done a first draft of contents for the release home page. If the 
>> contents are acceptable, we'll ask Daniel and Rene to integrate them 
>> into the current look-and-feel. Presumably the sidebar links will be 
>> similar to the current page.
>>
>> See http://mysite.verizon.net/beman/draft.html
> 
> Thanks, I'll put this shell into the trunk now.

Rene, any progress on this? It is holding up generating the first 1.35.0 
release candidate.

Thanks,

--Beman