On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Kévin Raymond
<shaiton@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> It does have a privacy policy that is more stringent about the data that
> duckduckgo keeps than the data that google keeps, though. With no current
> open source search engine, the Board decided that the website team could
> decide for itself what search technology to use to implement start.fp.o
> (which I see you are raising here, in the appropriate list :-)
>
Things that I've already started in april[1].
@team, we spoke about redesigning start.fpo, don't know where we are.
I know where we are.
The current fp.o page is really cluttered, and it has no clear purpose, as detailed in the wiki page.
If we want to drop the page, we need a permission from the board to do it, but we were all to lazy to bring this up to the board.
If we want to use it as a what'snew page (similar to what Firefox does after an update) that will explain what's new in the release, we would need a design (it needs to be more attractive than a wiki page and well designed), we need someone to update it every release, we need a permission from the board, and we need to speak with the Firefox package maintainers to make sure users will only see this page when they first open firefox after a new installation of Fedora or an upgrade, and never again until they upgrade to the next Fedora.
But we could change the default search engine to duckduckgo, and add a
discrete box like:
"Don't like the default search engine? Join us and contribute to a new
feature, called "Select the default search engine during the install
process!"
Like that we
1) break things
2) ask people that don't like this change to contribute
3) move forward
[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/websites/2011-April/018501.html
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