KISS on fp.org

[Mike McGrath]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 05:47 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>   
>> Mike McGrath wrote:
>>     
>>> Max Spevack wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Max Spevack wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> We need to make it AMAZINGLY EASY for the 90% of the users who are 
>>>>> going to show up at fedoraproject.org on release day looking for the 
>>>>> x86 Live CD or the x86 Installable DVD.
>>>>>           
>>>> I know that spins.fedoraproject.org exists basically to solve this 
>>>> very problem.  But from what I understand that isn't quite ready for 
>>>> release day, and so we need a stopgap measure.
>>>>         
>
> spins.fedoraproject.org shouldn't really be for the normal case -- it's
> more for the "we have way too many choices, let's put the less common
> ones somewhere where they're less likely to be confusing to the new user
> who just wants 'Fedora'".  And also to give a better way of navigating
> all of our options than the large-ish table at
> torrent.fedoraproject.org :-)
>
>   
>>> We actually did a great deal of work on making it easier to download 
>>> Fedora.  We're down to 2 clicks this time (though you don't see that on 
>>> the Fedora 7 page right now)  After clicking on "Get Fedora" they get 
>>> this page:
>>>
>>> http://mmcgrath.fedorapeople.org/web/en/get-fedora.html
>>>       
>> This looks great. The difference between which ones are CD vs DVD images 
>> is now clear. However we seem to have dropped the simple wording of what 
>> i386 (which really should be just x86) or x86_64 or PPC means for the 
>> non-technical users, Perhaps we should guide them towards x86 arch by 
>> default?
>>     
>
> It's also missing the fact that there's a PPC Desktop live image.  Also,
> the fact that the live images are installable is very important and yet
> very non-obvious from this page :(  From what's there, I'd get the
> impression that if I'm wanting to install, my only choice is the Install
> DVD.
>   

We can add the live PPC image without issue for both of those PPC users ;-)


/me adds it now
    -Mike