Our actual download pages are still remanends from older methods of shipping Fedora. We had 6 or 7 CDs, spins and some netinstall CDs, but now the arches and formats are much more and we are creating confusion. This leads to misunderstandings and we are also not able to promote all the arches the right way.
Actually we have 4 download pages on fp.o: get-fedora get-fedora-options get-fedora-all get-prerelease
and we have also http://spins.fedoraproject.org
My thought would be to: Drop the get-fedora-all page completely Avoid any kind of duplicates, i.e. some spins (the major ones) are available on 2 or 3 pages. All spins should reside on spins.fp.o! * Use the get-fedora page to promote all the shipping methods
The clearest method to do so IMHO would be to drop also the right random banners we have on the sidebar (Desktop, 2nd-arches, Cloud, Spins) and to put them into the get-fedora page.\ They should link to the tabs in get-fedora-options or to our spins page and give users a clear idea of what is available.\ Same for get-pre-release: it would be easy to promote on the get-fedora page, and we could also advertise it better on our main page.
If I can find some time after F19 GA I could give it a try, but if you have concerns or ideas please let me know and comment.
I agree, we already spoke about that and should clean a few things.
We should have a simple way to download the default Fedora. Let's say it is the index and the bug blue button. Then... Ok, that's a wide discussion that should be on the mailing list IMHO. But get-fedora-options become nicer at each release, and more and more complete. That could be the main page.
Let's see after the F19 release. The major issue is that the download pages should be for new users, and dear old contributors. Different targets, different needs. Same website.
You also forget http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
One of the key problems with the current page is lack of search engine friendliness. A search for "Fedora cloud images" brings up the several wiki pages and some junk. It would be nice if the each page were nicely tailored for people looking for that particular download. For cloud images, "Fedora Cloud Images" should lead in the html title tag, for example.
Also, I would like to see greater prominence for the cloud image for F20. I'm going to propose a number of aspects to FESCO, and among them, I'd like the cloud images to be next to the main desktop spin in visibility on the main download page.
We are partially rewriting the download pages for F20, Cloud Images will have more visibility and ARM is also primary now, so it will get his own page too. \ All the arches who have a dedicated page are in the title, also Cloud Images has, so if you search for ''Fedora Cloud Images'' it should appear in the top 5 results or at least on the first page.
I'm closing this ticket, it's useless for now, we will rediscuss this when we know more about the WG...
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