RFC: Home page design

[Ian Clatworthy]

Martin Pool wrote:

> In the text about "Improve your workflow..." I'd like to call out some
> particular advantages like 

I think that's going to be really hard on the front page. There are
plenty and different things will appeal to different audiences.

My personal favorites w.r.t. appealing to the mass market are

"Central or Distributed VCS - you choose"
"Easy to use GUI tools on all major platforms"
"Proper rename tracking"
"Easy to migrate existing projects"

So my point is that selling transparent access to git and hg branches is
a long way down the list of features that *typical* developers will care
about, given 70-80% of developers are still using Subversion or CVS.
Those plugins are still maturing as well so I'd prefer not to oversell
them just yet.

I think the answer is to keep the front page focussed on workflow
flexibility and for the tour to highlight the "Top 10" reasons for
moving to Bazaar.

Ian C.