From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from wopr.sciops.net ([216.126.196.60]) by ewsd; Tue Aug 18 19:40:39 EDT 2020 Received: (qmail 72927 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Aug 2020 16:40:33 -0700 Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:40:33 -0700 From: Kurt H Maier To: 9front@9front.org Subject: Re: [9front] RFC: add a downloads.md page Message-ID: <20200818234033.GE25798@wopr> Mail-Followup-To: 9front@9front.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-ID: <9front.9front.org> List-Help: X-Glyph: ➈ X-Bullshit: social markup markup component self-signing-aware solution On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 07:34:20PM -0400, Stanley Lieber wrote: > looked at hiro's downloads.md and reviewed the existing site. i'm not in love with duplicating all these disparate links to individual files that will change with every release. we already put almost all of this stuff into each release announcement. why don't we just replace iso/ with downloads/ and make that load the latest release page, and cause werc to inject a header with the explanatory text? this accomplishes the same thing but only has to be written once. i agree, it should then be linked in the top bar. as far as i'm concerned we can drop the link to the dash1 pdf from the sidebar, reducing clutter alongside other superfluous links like coc/ and n/. I like this plan, depending on what the explanatory text is explaining. I don't think it should be a complete education on rendering the media unto disk; it should be sufficient to mention that the isos are also bootable usb images and the img files are for sd cards. > it would also be appropriate to mention the hybrid iso in the corresponding fqa section, and add any other long omitted (four years!) and sorely lacking information, but i sense an underlying urge to segregate frequently questioned answers from the existing collection of frequently questioned answers. "this is natural, but it is done." --malcolm x. maybe someone can submit patches, or at least detail that and other missing info in an article for the new community docs repository. we already link to a mirror of that in the top bar. This would be a great contribution; for those playing along at home the fqa source is in https://code.9front.org/hg/fqa.9front.org and you can send patches to this list. khm