Ok, so I have some thoughts on this if you all don't mind indulging me... I love the idea of a site re-design for a number of reasons (better organization of content, modern look, better usability for access to important information quickly and efficiently for users, lowering the barrier to entry for contributions, etc...).
Having recently spent all my free time building out pixls.us for fun, I'm still neck deep in this stuff so it's fun to think about. I feel it would be beneficial to separate content from presentation. This allows the same content to be massaged into different forms later on (hopefully relatively easily). Using something like Markdown for page data is a very nice way to significantly lower the barrier for others to contribute (but is by no means a guarantee that they will - just that it would be a lot easier than it is currently). I also tend to like the static site generation path. My personal main consideration for a page/site is to make it as lightweight, fast, and as useful as possible. This generally also has the benefit of reducing vectors for possible malicious acts. So, if we consider the idea of using intermediate content files (markdown) and passing them through a static generator of some sort (jekyll, metalsmith, whatever) then we just need to address how best to handle the back-end data. (As a side note, so far this is exactly how I have been building out pixls.us, just using markdown and metalsmith (node.js) to generate the site). Is the ability to have multiple GIT repositories and permissions something we can easily setup on our existing infrastructure? Is it something we _should_ consider setting up? At the moment, when working on things on wgo, I just update my local copy of wgo, merge, work, push, etc... I am busy building out another site at the moment, but things are still fresh in my head, and as such I'd be willing to start work on a redesign of wgo. I'm going to start making some notes and thoughts on the wiki: http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/WGO_Redesign I may also branch wgo to start testing some ideas, but I will have some questions about the "application layer" setup as described by Cristobal... _______________________________________________ gimp-web-list mailing list gimp-web-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list