Re: We need your feedback of the documentation videos!

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:25:27AM -0500, sirgazil wrote:
> I think that these changes and a blog post about the availability of these 
> videos would work well to get the videos to the public as soon as possible.
>

:)


> The only thing I'd recommend against would be the yellow headers in the 
> videos page because they don't satisfy the WCAG 2.0 level AA contrast 
> requirements (one of my goals with the website design was to follow level AA 
> guidelines at least).
> 
> Now, personally, if I had the time, I would have designed the videos page in 
> a similar way to the blog page, and also done something like this:
> 
> * Add a "media" menu to the navbar with "screenshots" and "videos" items.
> * Add a "media" app that would hold the definitions for videos and 
> screenshots (the latter would move from the base app).
> * Add a "tracks" field to the "video" record and a corresponding "track" 
> record type for future subtitles.
> * Add three video previews to the home page, below the screenshot previews, 
> maybe using a heading like "Instructional videos".
> * Add a new entry to the Help page, next to "GNU Guix Manual", with the same 
> "Instructional videos" title.
> 
> 

Thank you for your review.  I will resend tomorrow with these changes.


>  > Putting the video files in the guix-artwork git repository may be 
>  > wrong, so the patch does not do that yet, instead still referencing 
>  > archive.org which seems wrong too. 
> 
> Is there any ethical issue with using archive.org that I'm not aware of? I 
> suggested Laura to upload videos there...
> 

I believe there is no ethical issue.  I like archive.org.  My only
reason is what you write here:


> In any case, since it is already possible, it would be great to use Guix own 
> hosting resources.

Regards,
Florian