Re: [9front] RFC: add a downloads.md page

[hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>]

big complaint: omission of "isohybrid"

On 8/19/20, sl@stanleylieber.com <sl@stanleylieber.com> wrote:
> here's what i did:
>
> - integrated most of the requested information into the latest and all
> future release announcements.  this seems like a good place for the
> information, and alleviates having to duplicate it anywhere else on
> the site (except for more detailed instructions in the fqa; see
> below).  note: this still requires loading some images, but is the
> difference in load time really that meaningful?
>
> - download/ added to the top bar on all 9front sites (redirects to
> releases/).
>
> - bugs.9front.org removed from the top bar on all 9front sites (nobody
> complained when the bugs.9front.org front page has been defunct for
> several years).  which reminds me: http://9front.org/bugtracker
>
> - iso/ removed from the sidebar (redundant).
>
> - releases/ moved from About: to Download: on the sidebar.
>
> - kept the link to the dash 1 under Download:, because why not have it
> there?  unless we create a long list of all the available files to be
> downloaded, we're never going to have "one click" downloading of
> bootable files on the front page.  if there is some compelling
> argument for removing more helpful links from the sidebar, please let
> me know.
>
> here's what needs to be done:
>
> - someone write a patch for fqa4 detailing specific instructions for
> creating bootable media in all the present forms we support.  we
> already have old instructions, but they were never updated to reflect
> the changes made since 2016.  once that's done, we can also link to it
> specifically in the release announcement.
>
> - fqa documentation of rpi stuff is so far outdated as to be useless.
>
> it may seem like i'm parsing this awfully finely here, but i'm not
> sure how much extra effort is justified to satisfy the
> "zero-to-installed" metric for users incapable of locating the
> .iso/.img files, or for ones incapable of conceiving what to do with
> them once they've found them.  the location of the files has never
> been a mystery, and what to do with them is the same thing you'd do
> with an .iso or .img from any operating system.  i do think the
> instructions are good to provide, i'm just not sure it all belongs on
> the download page, be that the primary or auxiliary variety.
>
> anyway, let me know if this sucks.
>
> sl
>