New website theme, when to roll out?

[Seb Ruiz]

On 10/04/2008, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> Heya,
>
>  emunkki (Pasi Lallinaho) has designed a new website theme for us. It's
>  been worked on for quite a while and went through many iterations, and
>  I think the latest mockup looks really neat:
>
>  http://projects.knome.ath.cx/amarok/WWW/
>
>  In my opinion this design is way better than our current old and
>  trusty design, and we should roll it out ASAP (as soon as the details
>  have been worked out).
>
>  Now a heated discussion has started about the right time for going
>  live with the new theme. I (and also Ian Monroe) would like to see
>  this implemented soon. Let me summarize our reasons:
>
>  1) Release early, release often
>  2) The old site is getting *very* long in the tooth. It demotivates me
>  just to look at it.
>  3) The new theme seems ready to go, design wise.
>  4) New site can provide us with some extra PR buzz, independent of the
>  Amarok 2.0 release.
>
>  However, some Amarokers oppose this plan; E.g. Lydia and Harald would
>  like to wait until the Amarok 2.0 release to roll out the new theme.
>  They believe everything has to be perfectly fine tuned (like adapting
>  the wiki and forum themes), and that it would create better PR to
>  release the new theme along with Amarok 2.0 final (which as we all
>  know will take quite some time).
>
>  I've become a bit tired of discussing this on IRC, so I'd like us to
>  make a decision here. Please voice your opinion :)

I'm going to withhold my reasons, but I reckon we should launch it
sooner rather than later.


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