[Scons-users] some website nits

[Bill Deegan]

Mats,

I think I updated all the above.
Please review and let me know.

-Bill

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 7:44 AM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

>
> These should be minor fixes for someone who has access:
>
> On the download page, the "prior stable" section contains entries that
> have not existed since 3.0.0 (in other words, this section was correct
> for the 3.0.1 release, but now is incorrect, as is the mention of the
> srpm in the following paragraph).
>
> ===
> Prior stable (3.0.3)
>
>     Gzip tar file scons-3.0.3.tar.gz
>     Zip file scons-3.0.3.zip
>     Redhat RPM scons-3.0.3-1.noarch.rpm
>     Windows installer scons-3.0.3-setup.exe
>     Source RPM scons-3.0.3-1.src.rpm
>
> The Gzip tar file and Zip file are installable using the Python setup.py
> script in the package. The Source RPM contains .tar.gz and .spec files
> to build your own RPM.
> ===
>
> On sourceforge, wherever you are within the scons project area, it has a
> green box which offers to let you download the latest version. That box
> shows these contents:
>
> ===
> Download Latest Version
> scons-3.0.0.tar.gz (630.4 kB)
> ===
>
> Possibly some note should go into the 3.0.2 files areas to indicate the
> release was withdrawn?  I don't know how that's normally handled.
>
>
> On the scons.org -> Community -> SCons Mailing Lists page:
>
> The Announcement mailing list is still mentioned, though it appears to
> be dead. The listing on tigris.org indicates this was the last posting:
>
> "SCons 2.1.0 Production Release is now available"  (2011)
>
> Announce, Users, and Development all mention a GMANE archive, which does
> not exist any longer (well, sort of exists, but there is no scons
> information and the existing links certainly do not work).
>
>
> Under Commit Messages, the last word is "Motifications", not
> "Notifications".
>
>
> The final section on this page refers to an issues mailing list on
> tigris.org, which I presume should be dropped.
>
> Being notified on issues (and PR activity) depends on watching the
> project and on the settings mentioned in the Commit Messages section.
> It's still up to GitHub - it treats things you are involved in
> (submitted or commented on the item in question = "involved")
> differently than things you're not, unless you are a committer. I am not
> sure I could even describe it, sigh. Probably merge the two sections
> together?
>
> To get more sophisticated than deferring to GitHub's decision on what to
> tell you you have to write an applet, and that's certainly beyond the
> scope of this page!!!
>
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