Front page violates branding agreement

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Fri Dec 14 17:04:12 GMT 2007


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Nils Ackermann wrote:
> On Bazaar's front page it should be
> 
> Download bzr 1.0 (or bzr-1.0 ?)
> 
> In the next sentence Bazaar 1.0 is mentioned, I think this should be
> bzr 1.0, too.
> 
> I think that for newcomers it would be helpful to explain *on the
> front page* that Bazaar is the project and bzr its product, now at
> version 1.0.  There should be a link to the Branding page, which
> should be updated to include the explanation of package names.
> Things are unclear because the package name of baz is bazaar, but the
> name Baz 1.0 is used on the page HistoryOfBazaar.
> 
> The package bazaar-1.4.2 exists in many distributions, and bazaar-ng
> is still used as a package name, see e.g.
> 
> http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=bazaar
> http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=bazaar
> 
> I have an account on bazaar-vcs now and could help with the changes.
> 
> Congratulations to the release!
> 
> Nils

That does sound like a good idea. I'm not very good at writing copy, though.
But I'll second the idea.

John
=:->

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