Re: Sponsorship Page Language

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Jonathan S. Katz
>>> <jonathan.katz@excoventures.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> When looking at the sponsorship page
>>>> (http://www.postgresql.org/about/sponsors/) I noticed a few things regarding
>>>> the language that I've attempted to clean up with this patch.
>>>>
>>>> The first regards the ordering of the sponsors - they are ordered randomly,
>>>> not alphabetically, so I corrected the language up top.
>>>
>>> I would think a better option would be to fix the ordering so the page
>>> works as intended.
>>
>> We specifically changed that *from* alphabetical *to* random back in
>> September. After a discussion between you and me. We (I, I guess) just
>> forgot to change the label..
>
> *checks mail*. Hmm, so we did. I'd forgotten that. However, it doesn't
> actually seem to work very well, due to the varnish caching, which
> prevents it changing between refreshes, making it look disorganised
> rather than random (typically, I think people expect random things to
> change every time you view them).

It works as intended - that page has a shorter cache time to make sure
they switch over reasonably often. But yeah, I guess it's not fully
random. Perhaps we should just *remove* the reference to alphabetical
without putting in a reference about random.

--Magnus HaganderMe: http://www.hagander.net/Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/