New website theme, when to roll out?
Seb Ruiz
ruiz at kde.org
Thu Apr 10 00:26:16 CEST 2008
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.
>
>
> --
> Mark
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