Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-wiki (86 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 06 October 2010 02:08:26 Helen wrote:
> I'm going to make a list of any I find as I'm looking for information,
> and will post that to the list.
>
> The Cooking with Kiwi was a big one which Rajko has redirected/fixed today.
>
> I must say, when I land on the portal, it's a little hard to know
> where to go next. I'm not a packager (obviously) so maybe they would
> know what they want on that page. But there's no clear 'get started'
> or 'begin packaging' link.
>
> https://build.opensuse.org/

Google search for "buid service" returns (to me):
1) http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service
2) http://build.opensuse.org/ 

Where "(to me)" means: Google knows what I'm looking for trough cookies, so 
for someone that never tried to look for opensuse build service it can return 
something else, like some construction company name, or msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/magazine/dd569749.aspx . Btw, interesting topic there "Lessons Learned".

> this is the one that has an arrow with 'welcome' on my Google search
> results so I'm seeing it as a landing page.

See, you used more some other search direction and results differs.

> Now that I've found the 'login' in the top corner and logged in, I can
> see 'my projects'. But it doesn't seem to invite new users to create a
> login. 
> Maybe it would be more obvious to a programmer.

About: https://build.opensuse.org/
Few icons at the bottom of the "Welcome to the openSUSE Build Service" are eye 
catcher and looking for Documentation there, I can't find it. 

Also I would like to see start point named "How to start", "Where to start", 
"Lets start", or just plain "Start". That one can replace "Create New Project" 
as there is already one link that will bring me to "My Projects" page that 
should handle project creation, view existing projects, etc.

I read that page as I'm first time there and besides above 2 comments, IMHO 
intro paragraph is longer then needed, with links dispersed in the text, which 
is not the best presentation for web readers. They like lists where first word 
is attention catcher and later text explains it. Nice book like text with 
links is using user time inefficiently and they don't like it. 

My source is http://www.useit.com/papers/webwriting/ :)

Above article is all list, and I find it easy to parse.

> cheers
>
> Helen
>
> > Which pages are you missing? The entry point for obs docu is:
> > http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service

See above Toms. 

> > Greetings
> >
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> > Thomas Schmidt (tom [at] opensuse.org)
> > openSUSE Boosters Team
> > "Don't Panic", Douglas Adams (1952 - 11.05.2001)

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Regards,
Rajko
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