Dates in Wine announcement

[Ian Macfarlane]

Very small suggestion - it would be helpful to have dates included
somewhere (preferably near the top) of the wine announce pages, for
example:

http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.12

This will let people who come to it via search engines know what date
this particular release was made on, without having to dig around.

(it will also help prevent people mistaking an old development release
for a new one - I'm sure most people have seen at least one news story
about something where the reporter/blogger is reporting years-old news
as new because they didn't look at the dates on the article, or there
were no dates or they were a hard to spot grey colour).

Just a small suggestion.

Ian

[Peter Urbanec]

Ian Macfarlane wrote:
> Very small suggestion - it would be helpful to have dates included
> somewhere (preferably near the top) of the wine announce pages

Speaking of dates... My pet peeve is seeing ambiguous dates such as
2/1/08. To me (and most of the world), that looks like 2nd Jan 2008, but
it appears that millions of people in the USA see it as 1st Feb 2008.
So, in the interest of disambiguation, I'd like to see human readable
dates with the month either fully spelled out or using a three letter
abbreviation. Date formats that are intended to be parsed by machines
are best represented as 2008-01-23, so that they are collated correctly
when sorted by a simple lexicographical routine.

Cheers.

[IneedAname]

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:33:21 +1100
Peter Urbanec <winehq.org(a)urbanec.net> wrote:
> Speaking of dates... My pet peeve is seeing ambiguous dates such as
> 2/1/08. To me (and most of the world), that looks like 2nd Jan 2008, but
> it appears that millions of people in the USA see it as 1st Feb 2008.
> So, in the interest of disambiguation, I'd like to see human readable
> dates with the month either fully spelled out or using a three letter
> abbreviation. Date formats that are intended to be parsed by machines
> are best represented as 2008-01-23, so that they are collated correctly
> when sorted by a simple lexicographical routine.
>
> Cheers.

If we had the date please spell it out in full. Then we all are on the same page world over.
Wednesday, 07 January 2009

Can you bring back the link to the newest version of wine.
E.G. link http://www.winehq.org/?announce=latest to http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.12
This did work before the website had its make over.

[Jeremy Newman]

I had already coded that in:
http://www.winehq.org/announce/latest

I'll put a redirect in for the old URL.

IneedAname wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:33:21 +1100
> Peter Urbanec <winehq.org(a)urbanec.net> wrote:
> > Speaking of dates... My pet peeve is seeing ambiguous dates such as
> > 2/1/08. To me (and most of the world), that looks like 2nd Jan 2008, but
> > it appears that millions of people in the USA see it as 1st Feb 2008.
> > So, in the interest of disambiguation, I'd like to see human readable
> > dates with the month either fully spelled out or using a three letter
> > abbreviation. Date formats that are intended to be parsed by machines
> > are best represented as 2008-01-23, so that they are collated correctly
> > when sorted by a simple lexicographical routine.
> >
> > Cheers.
>
> If we had the date please spell it out in full. Then we all are on the same page world over.
> Wednesday, 07 January 2009
>
> Can you bring back the link to the newest version of wine.
> E.G. link http://www.winehq.org/?announce=latest to http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.1.12
> This did work before the website had its make over.