[oats-sig] Ang. SAW-pages

Anyway, can you add specific comments like these to the trac:

> Anyway, can you add specific comments like these to the trac:
> http://www.oatsoft.org/trac/oats and i'll get onto them...
>

Not getting any response at the mo.

S

On 10/24/06, Judge Simon <Simon.Judge at sbpct.nhs.uk> wrote:
> I do agree!  It will get simpler...
>
> The 'trouble' is that we've customised a sytstem designed for programmers to
> allow them to version manage releases.
>
> I intend to leave this bit in but 'move' it to the forge side (and document
> it better) for OATS developers - since it is useful/good.  However, for most
> projects, i'll add a field into the main form with a download link.... This
> should simplify things lots???
>
> Anyway, can you add specific comments like these to the trac:
> http://www.oatsoft.org/trac/oats and i'll get onto them...
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon
>
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> ACT
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>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Steve Lee
> Sent: 24 October 2006 06:57
> To: OATs Project Special Interest Group
> Subject: Re: [oats-sig] Ang. SAW-pages - again!
>
>
> I vote for simplification and lack of duplication (do anything once). We
> need to make maintenance as easy as possible. Ruby on Rails makes for an
> interesting reference as the extreamly popular web development framework
> enshrines these and and other principles including it's 'golden path' of
> convention over configuration.
>
> So how can we simplify the structure whilst keeping the good features?
>
> Sorry to add to you work Mats but the WWAAC page probably needs updating
> again in light of the fact the site has come back.
>
> Steve
>
> On 10/23/06, mats.lundalv at vgregion.se <mats.lundalv at vgregion.se> wrote:
> > The SAW pages drive me nuts!
> >
> > I know I corrected the download links and removed David's note about
> > the need to update to the latest version (5.00.025). But now it was a
> > mess again - with incorrect links to the previous version and
> > information claiming that: SAW 5.00.021 - (Most recent release) -
> > which is clearly a lie - and David's comment about corrcting it. This
> > must robably be the backup restore we did some weeks ago when the
> > softwar pages wer gone?
> >
> > The problem is that it is too damn messy to fix it up again with text
> > and link information spread out on many different pages, and very hard
> > to find the way to the right spot to edit some of it. I finally
> > managed to correct the most important stuff after close to an hour of
> > fiddling around. That's too difficult! And still some information
> > there is redundant and contradictory (e.g. in the download page you
> > get to from the Downloads link in the right hand Help, Support &
> > Additional resources panel.
> >
> > Again: It is a far too complex structure with information collected
> > from different places and put together in one page - from which it is
> > far from easy to find it back when editing. Plus a lot of duplicated
> > info - e.g. mor than one download point. It would be very desireable
> > if we could simplify this structure otherwise hard to maintain
> > properly.
> >
> > What do you think, Simon, Andy and others!!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mats
> >
> >
>
>

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