Re: [Tails-dev] Please review draft documentation for IUK

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Sujet: Re: [Tails-dev] Please review draft documentation for IUK
sajolida@??? wrote (02 Jan 2014 15:02:51 GMT) :
> intrigeri:
>> First, I'm confused. You wanted me (with pretty good reasons) to
>> rename "Tails Upgrader" to "Tails Incremental Upgrader", so I did that
>> a few weeks ago (and, well, it was quite painful). And now the doc
>> refers to "Tails Upgrader" everywhere. What's wrong?


> When I said that I thought the user would have to understand and decide
> when to do a incremental upgrade and when to do a full upgrade.


> But with the IUK being automatic, the user is now taken into the
> incremental upgrade without having to take that decision or understand
> the conceptual difference between both. The IUK is started
> automatically, so that's what I called the "automatic upgrade", and if
> this doesn't work, then you can do a "manual upgrade". And we avoid to
> use "incremental" which is slightly more jargon.


> I called "Tails Upgrader", the piece of software that leads you through
> that process, to either do the upgrade or tell you that it is not
> possible and you should do it manually.


Totally makes sense.

> I didn't think this was much work from you. I thought you basically
> renamed the launcher (d54025d). And that I would adjust the
> documentation and strings presented to the user.


You are fully right, I was confusing this with the update -> upgrade
rename (that one *was* painful). Reverted, pushing.

>>> - If an error occurs while checking for available upgrades:<br/>
>>> [[file:///usr/share/doc/tails/website/doc/upgrade/error/check.en.html|upgrade/error/check]]
>>> - If an error occurs while download the upgrade:<br/>
>>> [[file:///usr/share/doc/tails/website/doc/upgrade/error/download.en.html|upgrade/error/download]]
>>> - If an error occurs while installing the upgrade:<br/>
>>> [[file:///usr/share/doc/tails/website/doc/upgrade/error/install.en.html|upgrade/error/install]]
>>
>> Links to file:///, really? This won't work for those who read this
>> page online, outside of Tails.


> I agree that looks a bit subversive but I had a rationale behind that.
> We know that those pages are a bit special already: people are invited
> to visit them from inside the error messages by typing the whole damn
> URL in the browser. I wanted to allow people to reach them through the
> doc as well, so they can consult them even without the error message in
> front of their eyes.


> I decided to use the same caption for those links that what the user
> sees in the error message; which is the URL starting with file:///. (By
> the way, I'd be curious to learn how many people know that a URL can
> start with something else than http). But from the online website those
> will point to the https:// pages as usually. It's only the caption that
> has file:///.


> Does that makes more sense somehow?


OK, good. I missed the caption/target difference, sorry.

>>> In that case, <span class="application">Tails Installer</span> allows you to
>>> manually upgrade a USB stick or SD card to a newer version of Tails.
>>
>>>   - [[Upgrade by cloning from another device|upgrade#clone]] which already
>>>     runs a newer version of Tails
>>>   - [[Upgrade from an ISO image|upgrade#from_iso]] of a newer version of
>>>     Tails

>>
>> Needs some linking words between the first sentence and the bullet
>> list, maybe?


> Fixed. bullet lists need to be introduced by a sentence ending with ':'.


I like the new version.

Cheers,
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