Hannes Hauswedell h2@fsfe.org, Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:05:08 +0200:
I still see only an empty page. Chromium on FreeBSD, here.
Yeah. Happened when your platform was actually recognised correctly, but no registered readers for this platform where available.
I've implemented a fallback, which redirects you to the full readers list now in this case.
Don't you think after this long development time, we should give the site more than a week of testing?
No, I really don't. I don't think there are that many actual *bugs*. The two we found were easily recognised and easily fixed.
The much bigger problem here is the lack of reader data. That was the first list item in my original mail. People who are visiting the page now might see Evince or Okular suggested to them, and think the data is fine. But it is really not.
A lot of the platform listings and and project links are simply fantasy data. Most readers are not checked, not reviewed or anything, the information on the site is pure test data, nothing more! This affects the proper selection of readers to suggest and the simplicity of the reader installation.
I cannot change this myself. If we wait another month, I still cannot fix it and the project is already three month over its deadline. If we can't accumulate the capacity to fill in those gaps on our own, then we will simply have to rely on the "outside" world to help us out. For this the site should be online rather soon than later.
That doesn't actually mean we have to advertise it yet to governments and organisations. But at least helpful people must be able to see our need.
The most important thing for now is, that someone who would otherwise just klick the download button for the adobe reader will be presented with something, that works about as well. Everything else must be filled in by people who are interested in the site and friendly to our cause.
So I'd like to urge you all again, to upload or send reader definition files.
Thank you