GRUB webpage

GRUB webpage

[Marco Gerards]

Hi,

Because too many people use this mailing list for questions and patches
that are not related to GRUB 2 I prepared a patch for the webpage.

There are two things that I have changed.

1) I made clear that the GRUB version most people use is GRUB Legacy
   and that when they are in doubt they can assume they use GRUB
   Legacy.  I can imagine people do not know which GRUB version they
   use and assume they use the newest (GRUB 2).

2) I changed the CVS checkout example from GRUB 2 to GRUB Legacy.

If someone has another suggestion to prevent confusion, please tell
me.  As I know very little about webpages (and because of the lack of
interest in webpages) all I will do for the GRUB webpage is updating
the text.

Okuji, can I commit this patch?

Thanks,
Marco


Index: grub.en.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /webcvs/grub/grub/grub.en.html,v
retrieving revision 1.43
diff -u -p -u -p -r1.43 grub.en.html
--- grub.en.html	1 Aug 2004 18:22:52 -0000	1.43
+++ grub.en.html	7 Aug 2004 15:09:20 -0000
@@ -130,10 +130,12 @@ GNU).
 </P>
 
 <P>
-Currently, a new breed GRUB is under development, <A
-HREF="#GRUB2">GRUB 2</A>.
-This means what was known as GRUB (i.e. version 0.9x) has become <A
-HREF="#legacy"> GRUB Legacy</A>.
+Currently, a new breed GRUB is under development (but not yet ready
+for production usage), <A HREF="#GRUB2">GRUB 2</A>.  This means what
+was known as GRUB (i.e. version 0.9x) has become <A HREF="#legacy">
+GRUB Legacy</A>.  At the moment GRUB Legacy is used by most people, so
+if you are not completely sure which GRUB version you use it is most
+likely GRUB Legacy.
 </P>
 
 
@@ -232,13 +234,13 @@ In this CVS repository, these two module
 </DL>
 
 <P>
-So, for example, if you want to get GRUB 2, you can specify <samp>grub2</samp>
-like this:
+So, for example, if you want to get GRUB Legacy, you can specify
+<samp>grub</samp> like this:
 </P>
 
 <PRE>
 $ export CVS_RSH="ssh"
-$ cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/grub co grub2
+$ cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/grub co grub
 </PRE>
 
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Re: GRUB webpage

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Saturday 07 August 2004 17:18, Marco Gerards wrote:
> If someone has another suggestion to prevent confusion, please tell
> me.  As I know very little about webpages (and because of the lack of
> interest in webpages) all I will do for the GRUB webpage is updating
> the text.
>
> Okuji, can I commit this patch?

No. I don't think it will improve things very much. As I have already 
said (maybe twice), the cause is the structure rather than the text 
itself.

Marco, I'd like to note one thing. AFAIK, no programmer is really 
interested in web pages, especially about the design. Probably this is 
the nature of most programmers, since they are not technically 
interesting. But web pages are still good means of assisting 
development. They reduce the cost of development by directing people to 
right places and they help development itself by attracting more people 
to the project.

Here I don't claim that you should work on web pages, but I claim that 
*someone* must work on them seriously anyway, and I myself don't want 
to work on them very much, like you.

This might sound arrogant, but I really want someone but me for this 
kind of work, because it does not require much knowledge about GRUB and 
I do a lot of legwork for GRUB already.

Okuji