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[Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:13:54AM +1000, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> When you say "someone who wants an overview of the project activity",
> who do you mean? It sounds specific, and I don't think I've ever had
> that use-case before.

I may be the only person who actually runs this use case, but I visit
project pages to see what's happening on it: is it using the bug tracker
actively (proxy being new bugs reported), and so on for each of the
applications. I do it because I want to understand how much of Launchpad
the project uses in practice, because I want to see if the project is
alive, and finally, because I want to know what sort of software that
represents.

> I think an interesting question about the project page is this: If we
> had wiki / web-hosting, how would this page be different? I'm still
> chewing over the answer.

That's a really tricky question. I think if we did have webhosting, and
we put it on a separate domain name (similarly to what SF does), the
page would have to prominently link to it. Another idea is having a part
of the page reserved for wiki or custom content, and then some fixed
content. Yet another is having a default but completely customizable
page (like smugmug.com does) that lead into application pages that are
for specific functionality.
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