[Yt-dev] 2.2 release, new website, vacation

[Britton Smith]

+1 on website.  Do that.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay -- let's plan on not having a release before the end of June.  If
> I get a chance before I leave I will work a bit on documentation, but
> I'd like to take Cameron up on his offer of writing some docs for
> Reason and if he and Casey want to coordinate on a screencast of how
> to use Reason (in the neighborhood of 30-90 seconds) that would be
> awesome.  I've filled out tickets for these items:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issue/288/reason-should-be-documented
> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issue/291/reason-screencast
>
> And as a reminder, the open tickets for 2.2 are listed here -- please
> feel free to comment or add more information.  Anyone who has push
> privs to the repo can update and modify existing tickets, and anyone
> can fill out new tickets.
>
>
> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issues?status=new&status=open&milestone=2.2
>
> (for the rest:
> https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issues?status=new&status=open
> )
>
> For the website, sounds like it's getting thumbs up, so I'm going to
> put it up on the front page sometime before I leave, maybe even later
> today.  Speak now or forever ...?
>
> -Matt
>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:02 AM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > +1 on the website.
> >
> > I don't have any time to help out with the yt 2.2 release goals before
> the
> > end of the month.  I could help in July if we want to push the release
> date
> > back.
> >
> > Britton
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Stephen,
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Stephen Skory <s at skory.us> wrote:
> >> > Matt,
> >> >
> >> >> 2) A few of us have created a prototype of a new website:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://yt.enzotools.org/prototype/
> >> >
> >> > Just some comments, and then I'll give my opinion on the design.
> >> >
> >> > I think it's bad form to put shortened URLs on a webpage, in
> >> > particular the one for "GET YT". Either put the full URL (which is
> >> > long in this case to the install_script.sh) or something descriptive
> >> > like 'Download install_script.sh'.
> >>
> >> I've removed it.  It was also redundant with the "Get yt" section
> header.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Having the single-page CSS scrolling is fine, but I don't think the
> >> > gaps between the sections are necessary. To some extent, those gaps
> >> > assume that the user can see the entire text in each section. When
> >> > they can't, they'll start scrolling down, and then they'll discover a
> >> > big gap between sections, which is odd. The converse is true too - if
> >> > the text is too short, then there's a big gap, which is odd, again.
> >>
> >> Hmm, I'm not sure about this.  I kind of like it.  If you want to hack
> >> away at it, though, feel free.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Overall I like it, I think it looks pretty sharp.
> >>
> >> Me too; I think it was the right one to choose.
> >>
> >> Anybody else have any suggestions on the website?
> >>
> >> >
> >> >> 3) I am going on vacation starting sometime between June 29 and July
> >> >> 3, and I will be gone until at least July 23rd.
> >> >
> >> > Take lots of pictures!
> >>
> >> I surely will.  :)
> >>
> >> -Matt
> >>
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Stephen Skory
> >> > s at skory.us
> >> > http://stephenskory.com/
> >> > 510.621.3687 (google voice)
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