[dlang.org] what to do with remaining orphaned pages

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Sun Mar 22 07:13:57 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 11:08:49 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 22/03/2015 11:54 p.m., anonymous wrote:
>> We recently recovered a bunch of pages that were removed from 
>> the menu
>> accidentally [1]. Two pages are still orphaned and I'm not 
>> sure what to
>> do about them:
>>
>>
>> http://dlang.org/overview.html
>>
>> This was not part of some $(SUBNAV_*), so removal may have been
>> deliberate. But there's no mention of it in the commit [2], so 
>> I'm
>> assuming this was an accident, too.
>>
>> I guess this fits best under Books & Articles. But "Overview" 
>> is a bad
>> title then. Suggestions?
>>
>>
>> http://dlang.org/spec.html
>>
>> This is the "Table of Contents" of the language reference. 
>> It's mostly
>> links to the other pages of the reference. We don't need it in 
>> the menu
>> for that.
>>
>> But it also has links to the PDF, Mobi, and Kindle versions of 
>> the
>> language reference. We need those somewhere. Where to put them?
>>
>>
>> [1] https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14280
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/commit/e486d39bd071fa00371bc01d55cd9815ee2210b4
>
> Based upon what I'm seeing in overview, it might need to be 
> updated BUT, the idea behind the page would be perfect for e.g. 
> background or "purpose".

+1

This could be the next page (after the start page) that a new 
visitor to dlang.org can read to get a more in-depth description 
of the language.


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