JED: Dates are well.. lost

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JED: Dates are well.. lost

Post by absalom » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:51 am

The last updated script is broken beyond repair it seems.. March last year was not 79 days ago.
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Re: JED: Dates are well.. lost

Post by ot2sen » Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:08 am

Hi absalom,

Those are two different things.
Date added + date since update of info in listing
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Re: JED: Dates are well.. lost

Post by absalom » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:19 am

What would it take to differentiate them ?

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Re: JED: Dates are well.. lost

Post by ot2sen » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:32 am

Date added: The day the extension was submitted/approved to be listed in JED.
Last updated: Last time the listing info was updated. Could be version number, description field, etc.
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Re: JED: Dates are well.. lost

Post by absalom » Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:43 am

From a design and usability perspective, the date last updated should be contextually associated with the version number as the version number is the primary field to determining last updated (unless of course, people tinker with their description and content).

It would read better if you stuck the updated script next to the version number (even if it's not entirely factually correct when people revise description and content). The way it reads now is that it was first published on this date and that date was X number of days ago.

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Re: JED: Dates are well.. lost

Post by ot2sen » Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:42 am

The (Updated X days ago) has been moved, and is now shown next to 'Version' instead of next to 'Date added'.

* This (Updated X days ago) still refers to update of listing info, but there is a work in progress for this to only include change in version.
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