On 8/17/20 7:34 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > Leaving that aside, AFAIK the main web site is not under community > control. It was taken over by RedHat eons ago ( not that it was > accessible for us, the members of the CentOS teams, before that anyway ) > and I bet that there are most 5 people who can modify it. If memory > serves I am part of the wiki translation team for 12 years or so and > AFAIK none of those who can edit the wiki had ever had any sort of > influence on the pages published on www.c.o. We actually had to _beg_ to > have links in the main website point to the wiki ( which _was_ under our > control ) so that we could publish information we thought that > could/would be useful for the users. FYI: Anyone can submit pull requests at https://git.centos.org/centos/centos.org > > > In an ideal world, we would have some sort of AJAX that would > dynamically describe each and every iso link on the main pages of the > web site. But that's a job for web designers and content publishers. I > fully recommend to whoever will be tasked with this project to look at > the wiki maintained by the arch community. THAT is how things should be > done, from my point of view. And, with all due respect, I mean that as > opposed to access.r.c and www.r.c which are awful to navigate unless you > know exactly what you want.. and sometimes not even then. > > wolfy > > > PS: I created the very very first 0_README.txt file that is now included > in the isos/$ARCH folder. A file which usually is ignored for the simple > reason that end users almost never reach it but whose content should be > published BEFORE the users attempt to download an iso. > > > >> The full message follows: >> >> >> >> I stumbled on your address on a Centos Faq page. I hope you can give me >> some sort of answer. >> I have been searching for a way to ask a question, but have not located >> a forum. As I am fairly new to Linux generally, I am exploring >> varieties, and Centos surfaced as an interesting option. But, again, I >> have a problem no one else considers worthy of asking or answering: how >> do I choose? Apparently the user in the download directory is supposed >> to know what they are looking for. >> When I followed the link to "download CentOs", I chose a link with >> ".iso" on it. This opened another page, so I picked another likely >> candidate. I went four or five branches deep before I gave up. I have no >> idea why I would want one branch or the other. Should I just leave >> CentOs to the experts? >> I really wish that on the home page there was a specification for "user >> level". Do developers assume that the user is expert, and that someone >> who is not qualified will get exhausted and go away? It seems very >> unkind to make that assumption and not say so. If I am not the intended >> user, please tell me! Otherwise, could someone please explain how to >> choose which version of CentOs to use? >> If you could forward this letter to someone who can take the time to >> answer my question, I will be grateful. >> << >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS-docs mailing list >> CentOS-docs at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs >