Re: Home page slowness - ReadList.com

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Home page slowness
\ davecode (9 May 2008)
. \ Francesco Talamona (10 May 2008)
. \ Justin (10 May 2008)
. \ Alan McKinnon (10 May 2008)
. . \ Justin (10 May 2008)
. \ Florian Philipp (10 May 2008)
. . \ Mick (10 May 2008)
. . . \ Florian Philipp (10 May 2008)
. . . . \ Alan McKinnon (10 May 2008)
. . . . . \ Mick (10 May 2008)
. . . . . \ Crayon Shin Chan (11 May 2008)
. . . . . . \ Alan McKinnon (11 May 2008)
. . . . \ Albert Hopkins (10 May 2008)
. \ James (10 May 2008)

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Subject:	Re: Home page slowness
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Mick
Date:	10 May 2008

On Saturday 10 May 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:19 -0700, davecode wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. The comment is, Gentoo
> > home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo is
> > "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months late and little
> > motion on the home page. That's about all most people inspect.
> >
> > So bottom line, impressions of Gentoo are going south even before we
> > test.

> For a start, have a look at "Old Charts" link and create statistics for
> new, resolved and fixed bugs. These numbers show clearly that Gentoo is
> very alive.
>
> The statistics here: http://www.gentoo-portage.com/Statistics
> also show that the number of packages doesn't stagnate as it would on a
> dying distro.

The OP has inadvertently given us some valuable feedback, which stands on its
own and is irrelevant with the fact that he (like many other non-gentoo
users) had mistaken Gentoo for yet-another-binary-distro. Having a user
friendly website that also caters to the needs of newcomers to the Gentoo
scene, requires that the key features and benefits of Gentoo are easily
visible/accessible. Not many people will navigate to hidden Statistics pages
to draw their own conclusions. These could be users that one day prove
valuable contributors. I suggest that we spring clean the website and
consider our new visitors needs at the same time (plus things like the much
asked for Documentation search field?). ;-)

Just my 2c's.
--
Regards,
Mick