[Bioc-devel] Distinction between release and devel package websites

[Hervé Pagès]

Hi,

In addition to these suggestions, how about using a special background
color for package landing pages in devel?

Cheers,
H.

On 07/21/2014 07:32 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> Or an unobtrusive "notification box" that drops down from the top of the
> page, saying something like "this is devel"; there would be a dismiss
> button and a checkbox for whether to show again. The user is free to simply
> ignore it and proceed as normal.
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Vincent Carey <stvjc at channing.harvard.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> how about a tooltip that reads "installation via biocLite() is the
>> recommended approach to Bioconductor software
>> acquisition, other approaches may lead to inconsistent package-sets" that
>> appears when a reader hovers over a tarball.  i would imagine that this is
>> how the "wrong package" gets installed, by manually using an inappropriate
>> tarball.
>>
>> wrong documentation is not so easy but the doc on the devel branch might
>> have a different tooltip cautioning the readers to be sure they want to
>> read the doc on the devel version.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:39 PM, Julian Gehring <julian.gehring at embl.de>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Can we make the package websites for the devel and release version of a
>>> package more distinguishable?
>>>
>>> To elaborate on this: In the past, I have seen several users having
>>> problems with using bioconductor because they ended up on the wrong page
>>> (mostly the devel page when they would have needed the release).  This
>>> resulted in getting the wrong documentation or installing the wrong
>>> package.  The pages are well designed, and there is no reason to change
>>> this.  However, the websites for the devel and release version of a
>> package
>>> look almost identical, and that these two get confused seems to happen to
>>> many users (me included).
>>>
>>> If you search for a package within the bioc website, the release version
>>> always comes first in the search results.  If you are coming from the
>>> outside (e.g. google), this may not be the case.  In fact, googling a few
>>> packages names often returned only the devel page in the top 10 search
>>> results.
>>>
>>> What are the feelings regarding this? We could add a header section on
>> the
>>> devel page that states that this is an unstable version not meant to be
>>> used in production settings, and provide a link to the respective release
>>> version?
>>>
>>> Best wishes
>>> Julian
>>>
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