further get-fedora progress

[Craig Thomas]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 18:33 -0400, Craig Thomas wrote:
>
> > I have been working on the get fedora page and here is my progress thus far:
>  >
>  > http://craigt.fedorapeople.org/get-fedora-drafts/get-fedora
>  >
>  > I have some known issues, (some pesky radio buttons via jquery, and
>  > the 'un-sure' option), but I thought I'd call for comments and
>  > suggestions ahead of next weeks meeting?
>  >
>  > Thanks for comments,
>
>  This is looking really nice, IMHO.  A few small-ish comments and
>  suggestions (some of which may fall into "very nitpicky" :-)
>
>  1) Put the Desktop Live media above the DVD -- more and more this is
>  giving the "experience" that we think is going to be better for a new
>  user
>  2) Obviously the text isn't final, but it'd be good to have a link to
>  "how do I use this" with the DVD/live media descriptions.  That way, we
>  can ensure that people are aware of how to use the live media off of a
>  USB stick

Yes, good ideas.

>  3) "Not sure" pushing people to choosing at the direct download links
>  doesn't seem like it helps the user to make a decision

Just a note here; known issue, that's one of our pesky radio
buttons...the idea is that it's populated and the user has 'no-choice'
if they are un-sure...we give them $lowest_common_denominator
selections.

>  4) Do we want a link to the release notes and the install guide on the
>  page?  There's the generic docs link, but release notes and install
>  guide seem very relevant and putting them front and center could help to
>  guide new users

Yes.  Also, I think the links we have now like 'Want to look around' ,
'See all mirrors' etc.

>  5) 32 bit vs 64 bit wording makes it seem like you can't run 32 bit on
>  newer Intel processors which isn't true.  Not sure how to better present
>  it, though :-/   Maybe just remove the "except..." bits from 32 bit and
>  still have 64 bit call out what it supports?

Good point, and I would think we would feed the 'un-sure' user's the
32 bit live media (CD) so making it clear it does work would be
important.

>  6) Do we want a link that's basically "Do an install over the network"
>  that just gets you to download boot.iso/netinst.iso?  On the one hand,
>  it's something more advanced users really like... on the other hand, the
>  advanced users are less likely to be the people using this page.  Also,
>  although we've put a fair bit of work into making this path "better" for
>  Fedora 9, Fedora 10 is when it's going to really rock.  So maybe we
>  should just hold off until then.

We are targeting F10 for these changes, F9 is too close IMO.

Thanks for taking the time to review and make comments, it's very helpful.

--
Craig