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@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@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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