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Revisit History Page #83

Closed agcolom closed 11 months ago

agcolom commented 9 years ago

We're thinking about turning the History page into brief written history with highlights rather than a list of releases.

arschmitz commented 9 years ago

+1 also @scottgonzalez couldn't we automate the current history page by using git tags or as part of the release script or something so its not always outdated?

scottgonzalez commented 9 years ago

That's not what we want the history page to be though.

kborchers commented 9 years ago

This page seems to serve little purpose but to display information that can be found in each project repo. As our number of projects increases it seems unlikely and a waste of time to keep this page up to date. I think it should just be deleted.

scottgonzalez commented 9 years ago

I really don't think we should delete the history page. It should however have a major makeover.

kborchers commented 9 years ago

What purpose does it serve though? It just seems like one more thing to maintain and definitely not something we should force on all of our projects to add to their release processes. Plus, I would really like to clean up the top nav of this site to make room for more important things like a link to our Mission/Vision page.

arschmitz commented 9 years ago

I would think the history page should stay, but be the actual history of jQuery Core ( early ), and the foundation as a whole ( once it existed ). I have always thought it was really weird we did not have a page like this, and that our history page was just releases. Im fairly sure this existed on the old website somewhere.

arschmitz commented 9 years ago

I guess this is what I was thinking of which still is not great but better then what we have now. http://web.archive.org/web/20121225031602/http://jquery.org/history/

scottgonzalez commented 9 years ago

What purpose does it serve though?

If you were to sit down and tell someone the history of the foundation, how it came to be, and the major milestones, the conversation would be informative, interesting, and sound completely different than what's on the page currently. I think we should tell that story.

It just seems like one more thing to maintain and definitely not something we should force on all of our projects to add to their release processes.

I absolutely agree. Project releases don't belong here, unless there's some major milestone or accomplishment that belongs in a discussion of the foundation's history.

Plus, I would really like to clean up the top nav of this site to make room for more important things like a link to our Mission/Vision page.

That sounds like a separate conversation that we can have.

kborchers commented 9 years ago

I see, I misunderstood your original comment of a makeover. I just pictured better styling and organization of the same information. I am on board with a better account of the Foundation's actual history. And yes, I will create a separate issue for nav cleanup