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

[Cameron Hummels]

agreed.  +1.  it is great.



On 6/22/11 11:39 AM, Britton Smith wrote:
> +1 on website.  Do that.
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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
>     <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
>     <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 <mailto: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 <mailto:matthewturk at gmail.com>>
>     > wrote:
>     >>
>     >> Hi Stephen,
>     >>
>     >> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Stephen Skory <s at skory.us
>     <mailto: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 <mailto:s at skory.us>
>     >> > http://stephenskory.com/
>     >> > 510.621.3687 <tel:510.621.3687> (google voice)
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