Re: [website-dev] site needed: EOL announcement

Per Eriksson wrote:

Hi Per,

> They have it here:
> 
> http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/

thanks for the link. It makes absolutely sense that they have separated 
pages because for their many products they need already sub-index pages.

@cloph:
Just in case, if you haven't write access to the development section, 
just send me the HTML file and I will put it online.

Best regards

Marcus



>> Per Eriksson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Per,
>>
>>> IBM uses one article for each product. Maybe this would be a good 
>>> idea as well?
>>>
>>> /releases/eol/index.php
>>> /releases/eol/1.2.1.php
>>> ..
>>> And so forth...
>>
>> interesting. Even not knowing the complete link it seems that they 
>> also have just one place to look for and then linking to separate 
>> websites for the respective product/version.
>>
>> Because we have just 1 product it is not ncessary to split this 
>> further up. ;-) Maybe we will have some more data for older versions 
>> in the future so that seperated pages makes more sense. But current I 
>> really suggest to have just one. Then we have a single place to look 
>> for, too.
>>
>> BTW:
>> Do we make a difference bewteen EOL (End Of Life = no more versions, 
>> updates etc.) and EOSL (Enf Of Service Life = no more support, help or 
>> any further service)?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>>
>>
>>> Marcus Lange skrev 2010-01-15 11:20:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I would avoid version numbers in the filename. What about this?
>>>>
>>>> http://download.openoffice.org/common/eol.html
>>>> http://development.openoffice.org/releases/eol.html
>>>>
>>>> On the webpage we can state clearly the exact version number(s) 
>>>> which are EOL'ed now.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>>
>>>> Marcus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Stefan Taxhet (sonews) wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> has anybody thought about the location for the page (not site?) 
>>>>> already?
>>>>>
>>>>> These options come to my mind:
>>>>> http://download.openoffice.org/common/2.x_eol.html
>>>>> http://development.openoffice.org/releases/2.x_eol.html
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to avoid the www area and any version specific areas.
>>>>> My preference would be the latter as it is close to release notes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings
>>>>> Stefan
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Florian Effenberger wrote:
>>>>>> Hi cloph,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Christian Lohmaier wrote on 2010-01-14 14.09:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Putting some text the marketing Team figured out on the web: No 
>>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> But if you meant creating the announcements and stuff, then I 
>>>>>>> have to pass :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> that would be great! The announcement is here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=407
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Florian