Re: FVWM: suggestion about the web site at http://www.fvwm.org/

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:36:22 -0500

"Rouben Rostamian" <rostamian_at_umbc.edu> writes:
> Fvwm's home page at http://www.fvwm.org/ says:
>
> NEWS FLASH! FVWM 2.4.15, a stable release, is now available for download
>
> which is terrific, however a NEWS FLASH without a date looks rather
> odd. The infrequent visitor is given no clue whether the news
> flash was posted two days ago or a year ago.
>
> The "Last modified" date at the bottom of the page indicates
> that this is not an abandoned site, however it is not certain
> that the "Last modified" date pertains the news flash or some
> other item on the page.
>
> Similarly, the "Latest News" link takes us to:
>
> http://www.fvwm.org/generated/NEWS.html
>
> where again we are given no dates, thus we are left in the dark as
> to how "Late" the "Latest News" may be.
>
> Several other related pages suffer from the absence of dates too.
> See, for instance,
>
> http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/
>
> where it says: "Stable fvwm-themes-0.6.2 is released", but doesn't
> say when.
>
> Please consider including dates corresponding to announcements and
> news releases.

Good point. Thanks for the constructive advice. A date should
appear next to the release announcement within an hour or so.

I haven't looked at the NEWS file, but I'll probably get to it
sooner or later.
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Dan Espen                           E-mail: dane_at_mk.telcordia.com
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