On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:34:03PM +0200, Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Mostly I don't like PTS links to be too volatile; for me, the presence > of a "clang" link just says that the clang service is meaningful with > respect to this (source) package. It is reasonable to add another small > piece of information to avoid wasting the users' time, but just loosing > the link to clang is (in my opinion) not very friendly. > > Anyway, I think it is not the first time I have a different opinion from > the design principles of PTS. I can live with it, my opinion is not > really strong. So, the design principle at stake here is slightly different. The point of it has always been to avoid having visitor click on a link just to discover whether there is something for them there or not. Such a principle has often been implemented by making links "volatile", as you say, but that's not the only way to do it. In this specific case one can for instance have a link and decorate it with a trailing "(X)" where X is the number of "things" to be seen there. This way, the visitor can learn that they do not need to click if the annotation is not there, and everyone else who want the link to be always present can be happy too. OTOH, if it really there is *nothing to see* in the "(0)" case, it is indeed probably pointless to have the link in the first place. YMMV. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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