"Chris B" <c_b### [at] btconnectcomnospam> wrote in message 
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>A small group of enthusiastic volunteers has started to go through the 
>links
> from the POV-Ray links pages to track down broken links and validate the
> descriptions. Once we've got the links data up to date it'll be loaded
> onto the web site, which is currently a couple of years out of date.
>
> We're also looking at re-organising the categories to make the links pages 
> easier to use and maintain. I've posted a couple of diagrams on 
> 'povray.binaries' in the thread entitled 'POV-Ray link Categories' see 
>
http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C4464518c%40news.povray.org%3E/.
>
> Please take a look and see if you think this is likely to meet your own 
> needs and those of newcomers to POV-Ray.
> The aim is to finalise a design by the end of May.
> Please use this thread to contribute to the discussion.
>
> Regards,
> Chris B.
>

Hey Guys,

We seem to be getting hung up on the first paragraph (intended to just 
introduce what's happening). The main intention of this posting was to 
promote discussion on the re-organisation of the Categorisations and the 
Hierarchical organisation of the links pages on the povray.org site. See 
paragraphs 2 and 3 above. Whether we update the links manually, 
automatically, monthly or yearly, we'll need to structure the links in a way 
that meets the needs of the people wanting to use them. I'm proposing 
changes to a number of aspects of the structure and would appreciate 
feedback about whether people think these changes are a good or bad idea.

  o   The current structure for example has a category for 'Include Files', 
one for 'Macros' and one for 'Objects'. Although this may at first seem 
logical, many Object definitions and Macro definitions are contained in 
Include files and many Macros generate Objects. I've therefore suggested 
that these 3 sections be merged.

  o   In the hierarchy that I'm proposing, I've tried to reduce the number 
of levels so that most links are displayed in less clicks of the mouse.

  o   I've proposed some radical trimming down of content in some areas, 
with some categories being removed and with some others where the current 
links would mostly be removed and replaced with a small number of links that 
would hardly ever need to be changed. We would then be able to increase the 
number of links to POV-Ray specific content without things getting out of 
hand.

Any thoughts on this?
(Anyone having problems displaying the diagrams?)

Regards,
Chris B.

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