[yocto] Yocto Project Quick Start Feedback

[Rifenbark, Scott M]

Jeff,

Sounds good.

From: Osier-mixon, Jeffrey [mailto:jeffrey.osier-mixon at intel.com]
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 12:01 PM
To: Rifenbark, Scott M
Cc: Barros Pena, Belen; William Mills; Abbas, Mohamed; Yocto Project; Darren Hart; Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky; Purdie, Richard
Subject: Re: [yocto] Yocto Project Quick Start Feedback

As this page is regenerated each time the document changes, we'll need to find a way to add the script to the source so it isn't simply overwritten. Scott, I'll ping you separately to describe how to do this.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Rifenbark, Scott M <scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com<mailto:scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com>> wrote:
I notified the person here that should know how to do that stuff.

Thanks,
Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Barros Pena, Belen
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 9:23 AM
To: Rifenbark, Scott M; William Mills
Cc: Abbas, Mohamed; Yocto Project; Darren Hart; Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky; Purdie, Richard
Subject: Re: [yocto] Yocto Project Quick Start Feedback

Thanks, Scott. Do you know who manages the CMS? I guess that's the person
who could add the GA script to the page.

Cheers

Belen

On 27/02/2012 15:00, "Rifenbark, Scott M" <scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com<mailto:scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com>>
wrote:

>Good suggestion.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Barros Pena, Belen
>Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 6:02 AM
>To: Rifenbark, Scott M; William Mills
>Cc: Abbas, Mohamed; Yocto Project; Darren Hart; Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky;
>Purdie, Richard
>Subject: Re: [yocto] Yocto Project Quick Start Feedback
>
>Hi all,
>
>Sorry to jump in. After reading the discussion I went to check the web
>traffic data for the Quick Start page, thinking that it might give us some
>useful information about how people are using the content and how to
>improve it.
>
>Unfortunately, it looks like the Google Analytics script is missing from
>http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/current/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs
>.
>html, so no web traffic information is available.
>
>Before making changes to the content, maybe we could add the Google
>Analytics tracking script to the page and see what comes out of it. By
>providing volume, the data could help us break the 'personal opinion
>deadlock'.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Belen
>
>
>On 24/02/2012 22:19, "Rifenbark, Scott M" <scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com<mailto:scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com>>
>wrote:
>
>>Bill,
>>
>>You are reading me wrong.  I actually like the idea.  It fits a Quick
>>Start.  I was going to divert the expert reader anyway.  The reason I
>>tried to paint the picture here was to see what others thought of the
>>idea.
>>
>>Scott
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: William Mills [mailto:wmills at ti.com<mailto:wmills at ti.com>]
>>Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 1:07 PM
>>To: Rifenbark, Scott M
>>Cc: Darren Hart; Yocto Project; Abbas, Mohamed; Purdie, Richard;
>>Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
>>Subject: Re: [yocto] Yocto Project Quick Start Feedback
>>
>>On 02/24/2012 01:05 PM, Rifenbark, Scott M wrote:
>>> The "movie" angle is interesting.  Picture this... the opening 1/2 page
>>>sets up the packages for Ubuntu, downloads files, builds
>>>core-image-sata, and runs qemu.  All this done without even telling
>>>anyone what YP is.  Follow that by "what just happened... we just built
>>>and ran an image using the Yocto Project.  Then the QS launches into the
>>>"Welcome" stuff and flows on as normal.  That would be a unique
>>>beginning for a technical manual.
>>
>>I sense some derision in your word "unique"?  Thats fine, your doing
>>most of the work and you have to be happy with it.
>>
>>However I don't think it is unique.  Yes it would be a bad approuch to
>>use in a reference manual but I have found a number of  intros/tutorials
>>start this way and I always enjoy the approuch.  Perhaps the QS at only
>>9 printed pages is too short to be structured this way.  The QS guide
>>itself is just this "taste of the bigger picture" for the full doc set.
>>
>>As I said, just some thoughts.
>>
>>Bill
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