Re: copyright assignments complete--green light for 0.4.0

[John Darrington]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:25:05PM +0200, P.C.J.G. Brunier wrote:
     Hi Ben and the others,
     
     Please let me know if you need something done on the PSPP page.
     An updated news file probably isn't enough for a new release.
     I want to know when PSPP is going to be released. It would be nice to have
     the entire PSPP page(s) reflect the latest release, at the right time in
     sync with the actual release. It looks so ugly otherwise.
     

I had a look at the pages we've got.  The news page will need to be
updated like you mentioned; this essentially gets lifted from the NEWS
file.  Similarly, the Contributors page needs minor updates as per the
AUTHORS file.  The manual will need to be regenerated from the Texinfo
source. So far as I can see, the only other existing page that may
need attention is the FAQ.  I'll see if I can make some suggestions
there. 

It may be appropriate to add some new information to give the site a
bit of sparkle.  Perhaps we could include some sample output pages
and/or some kind of tutorial.  I think the main reason this has not
been done in the past is the time and effort needed to maintain such
pages.   It needs to be done well; I think a poorly presented
tutorial/promotion site is worse than none at all.


John




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