[Cpan-forum-commit] rev 230 - in trunk: . templates
svn at pti.co.il
svn at pti.co.il
Tue Dec 12 20:47:36 IST 2006
Author: gabor
Date: 2006-12-12 13:47:31 -0500 (Tue, 12 Dec 2006)
New Revision: 230
Modified:
trunk/
trunk/templates/faq.tmpl
trunk/templates/home.tmpl
Log:
slight cleanup in the FAQ
links to FAQ entries from the main page
Property changes on: trunk
___________________________________________________________________
Name: svk:merge
- 8c4c90e1-83eb-0310-96eb-e7cb62807872:/local/cpan-forum:11337
+ 8c4c90e1-83eb-0310-96eb-e7cb62807872:/local/cpan-forum:11349
Modified: trunk/templates/faq.tmpl
===================================================================
--- trunk/templates/faq.tmpl 2006-09-17 18:46:15 UTC (rev 229)
+++ trunk/templates/faq.tmpl 2006-12-12 18:47:31 UTC (rev 230)
@@ -4,20 +4,17 @@
<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="navigation.tmpl">
<div class="faq">
<ol>
- <li><a href="#self">Hey, the service has just been launched. How can be there any questions?</a></li>
<li><a href="#nologin">Why can't I login?</a></li>
<!--<li><a href="#techo">I have some other technical problem with the site</a></li>-->
<li><a href="#howtolink">Can I link to a specific Module's page in the forum?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#machine">I am a machine, do you have something for me too?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#feeds">RSS and Atom feeds</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#notify">Can I get notified when a new post arrives?</a></li>
<li><a href="#why">Why do I need this? We already have our mailing list!</a></li>
<li><a href="#whyweb">OK, but why web forum? Why not a mailing list with topics?</a></li>
<li><a href="#perlmonks">So what about Perl Monks? That is a web forum!</a></li>
- <li><a href="#notify">Can I get notified when a new post arrives?</a></li>
</ol>
<hr />
<dl>
- <dt><a name="self">Hey, the service has just been launched. How can be there any questions?</a></dt>
- <dd>I talk to myself and frequently ask questions... :-)</dd>
<dt><a name="nologin">Why can't I login?</a></dt>
<dd>
Don't know. Send a note to <a href="mailto:gabor at pti.co.il">Gabor Szabo</a> with your
@@ -32,33 +29,63 @@
To link to the forum of a specific distribution you can link to:<br />
http://www.cpanforum.com/dist/Package-Name<br />
</dd>
- <dt><a name="machine">I am a machine, do you have something for me too?</a></dt>
+ <dt><a name="feeds">RSS and Atom feeds</a></dt>
<dd>
- Sure, we like machines. Currently you can get the following RSS feeds:
+ Currently you can get the following RSS feeds:
<ul>
- <li> http://www.cpanforum.com/rss/all 10 latest posts</li>
- <li> http://www.cpanforum.com/rss/dist/Distro-Name 10 latest posts in distro</li>
- <li> http://www.cpanforum.com/rss/author/PAUSEID 10 latest posts
+ <li> http://www.cpanforum.com/rss/all - latest posts</li>
+ <li> http://www.cpanforum.com/rss/threads - latest posts</li>
+ <li> http://www.cpanforum.com/rss/dist/Distro-Name - latest posts in distro</li>
+ <li> http://www.cpanforum.com/rss/author/PAUSEID - latest posts
in any of the distros of the given CPAN author</li>
</ul>
+ Atom feeds:
+ <ul>
+ <li> http://www.cpanforum.com/atom/all - latest posts</li>
+ <li> http://www.cpanforum.com/atom/threads - latest posts</li>
+ <li> http://www.cpanforum.com/atom/dist/Distro-Name - latest posts in distro</li>
+ <li> http://www.cpanforum.com/atom/author/PAUSEID - latest posts
+ in any of the distros of the given CPAN author</li>
+ </ul>
</dd>
+ <dt><a name="notify">Can I get notified when a new post arrives?</a></dt>
+ <dd>
+ Yes, you can subscribe to e-mail alerts for
+ <ol>
+ <li> all the distributions</li>
+ <li> all the distributions of a given CPAN author</li>
+ <li> a single distribution</li>
+ </ol>
+ In each case you have 3 options:
+ <ol>
+ <li> All messages - you get notification about every message sent to this group </li>
+ <li> Thread starters - Whenever someone starts a new thread you get a notification.
+ On subsequent posts to the same thread you don't get any message.</li>
+ <li> Followups - You get all the messages sent to a certain thread that you have participated
+ in. These won't necessarily be responses tou your message but will be in the same thread
+ so presumably you are somewhat interested.</li>
+ </ol>
+ When looking at the page of each module (/dist/Module-Name) you'll see a link to configure
+ the notification level for that module. By default you don't get any mail. When you want to change
+ your subscription you can do it from <a href="/mypan/">MyPAN</a>
+ </dd>
<dt><a name="why">Why do I need this? We already have our mailing list!</a></dt>
<dd>
Of course the established distribtions already have their mailing lists.
- This means 100-200 maybe even 500 distributions. But there are over 7000 distributions on CPAN.
- Even if we say that half of them don't need any kind of mailing list or forum and should not be
- there anyway it still leaves more than
- 3000 distributions that could do with a some kind of a forum.
+ This means 100-200 maybe even 500 distributions. But there are over 10,000
+ distributions on CPAN. Even if we say that half of them don't need any kind
+ of mailing list or forum and should not be there anyway it still leaves more
+ than 5000 distributions that could do with a some kind of a forum.
<br />
- You can also look at it from the other side. Someone who uses 30-50 modules on a regular basis,
- does s/he need to subscribe to 30-50 mailing lists? That's a nightmare.
- What if I just want to ask one question about a module and I'd like to ask the most knowledgeable
- about this module? Should I subscribe to a mailing list and then unsubscribe from it after a
- few days?
+ You can also look at it from the other side. Someone who uses 30-50
+ modules on a regular basis, does s/he need to subscribe to 30-50 mailing lists?
+ That's a nightmare. What if I just want to ask one question about a module
+ and I'd like to ask the most knowledgeable about this module? Should I
+ subscribe to a mailing list and then unsubscribe from it after a few days?
<br />
- On this forum people can have one centrally managed subscription and discuss all the modules they
- use. Their mail boxes won't be flooded by messages (unless they really want it) and they can
- selectively view the discussions.
+ On this forum people can have one centrally managed subscription and discuss
+ all the modules they use. Their mail boxes won't be flooded by messages
+ (unless they really want it) and they can selectively view the discussions.
</dd>
<dt><a name="whyweb">OK, but why web forum? Why not a mailing list with topics or a news group?</a></dt>
<dd>
@@ -95,27 +122,6 @@
but appearently without implementation.<br />
It is a nice discussion though.
</dd>
- <dt><a name="notify">Can I get notified when a new post arrives?</a></dt>
- <dd>
- Yes, you can subscribe to e-mail alerts for
- <ol>
- <li> all the distributions</li>
- <li> all the distributions of a given CPAN author</li>
- <li> a single distribution</li>
- </ol>
- In each case you have 3 options:
- <ol>
- <li> All messages - you get notification about every message sent to this group </li>
- <li> Thread starters - Whenever someone starts a new thread you get a notification.
- On subsequent posts to the same thread you don't get any message.</li>
- <li> Followups - You get all the messages sent to a certain thread that you have participated
- in. These won't necessarily be responses tou your message but will be in the same thread
- so presumably you are somewhat interested.</li>
- </ol>
- When looking at the page of each module (/dist/Module-Name) you'll see a link to configure
- the notification level for that module. By default you don't get any mail. When you want to change
- your subscription you can do it from <a href="/mypan/">MyPAN</a>
- </dd>
</dl>
</div>
<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="footer.tmpl">
Modified: trunk/templates/home.tmpl
===================================================================
--- trunk/templates/home.tmpl 2006-09-17 18:46:15 UTC (rev 229)
+++ trunk/templates/home.tmpl 2006-12-12 18:47:31 UTC (rev 230)
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
<link href="/rss/all" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title ="CPAN::Fourm rss" />
<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="navigation.tmpl">
+
+<a href="/faq/#feeds">RSS and Atom feeds</a><br />
+<a href="/faq/#notify">Get notified by e-mail when a new post arrives</a>
+ <br />
+
<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="search_form.tmpl">
<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME="listing.tmpl">
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