Linking to logos was Is 42,000 a lot?

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Emma Jane writes:

 > What would be the advantage of linking the logos from the front page of the 
 > site?

It's expected.  Specifically, people expect that references to
external content on web pages will be associated with physical links.

 > If people have arrived on the front page of the Bazaar site I don't
 > see why they would want to, or should need to, immediately leave to
 > visit the Ubuntu front page?

Who says they "immediately" leave?  They remember the logos were on
the front page, and on modern browsers it's in the recent history
menu.  Drag-select-click and you're at Ubuntu.

 > If the goal of the link is to be respectful back to the project I
 > think the most flattering thing we can do is write a case study for
 > how each of those projects is using Bazaar and link to that. On the
 > case study page there can be links back to the home page for the
 > project and an instance of Loggerhead if it's available.

This is a *great* idea[1], but expensive to do well (you need to
interview some core developers and the owner of the principal repos to
do it *very* well; just writing up a one-screen blurb will require a
bit of research ... you don't want to write that Ubuntu loves
lightweight checkouts if their workflow is all about stacked
branches).  "Just link" is cheap, quick, and easy to do well.


Footnotes: 
[1]  You've been a constant source of those, and I think it will
really help Bazaar's image in the non-programming and non-core-
developer audiences.  Keep it up, Emma!