Re: [rt-pmc] Paragraph URLs

[Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was being dramatic for effect.  There is of course no hard limit or right number.  The point is that being able to interestingly motivate your project in 50-100 words is "a good thing"(tm). It serves the reader well and forces the projects to really pin down what they are about.  We have it easy in Equinox for sure but that does not detract from the value of a concise project description.

Jeff

On 2010-10-07, at 2:14 AM, Campo, Christian wrote:

> It seems its only me, but I think 6 or 8 lines are equally ok if it helps you to nail down what your project is about. (I disagree that if it takes 8 lines, you dont know what you are doing :-) ) Not every project like Equinox can reference a well known keyword like OSGi which basically describes the whole project in one word :-)
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> For me the current length of Riena :-)  but also EclipseLink, RAP, Virgo, Gemini are equally ok. Why dont we revisit this topic once we have 20 projects or so. I find the current page length ok.
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> I would rather recommend (but dont force) people to NOT reference version info but rather stay on a more general description. So dont have stuff like we just did 1.3. and on Nov 23 we are going to do 1.4M8 (or whatever) or reference coming events in the coming month. That really belongs on the project page and not in an abstract about what a project is doing.
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> just my 2 cent
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> christian
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> Am 06.10.2010 um 22:20 schrieb Jeff McAffer:
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>> Thanks (almost) everyone for setting up their paragraph project descriptions and URL value in the project database.  The new RT page [0] is coming along.
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>> I do have one request: Please trim your paragraph descriptions.
>> 
>> The point of the paragraph is to convey, in a very minimal format, the jist of your project. All the content has to do is motivate people to click on the project link to find out more. In isolation a few more lines does not hurt but in aggregate it makes the project list very long and daunting.  The paragraph text is meant specifically for aggregation in lists like we see on the new RT page.  So in an effort to manage the overall page length, I suggest that project paragraphs should render no more than ~4 lines on the RT project web page.
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>> One of the values of this effort is that it forces you to decide what the heck your project is doing!
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>> If you really want to have a longer paragraph description then make the first 4 lines count as I may trim excess when rendering the RT page if it starts getting too long.
>> 
>> Jeff
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>> [0] http://eclipse.org/rt/testweb
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