Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-06-07 Thread Oleg Verych
* From: David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 20:15:08 -0400 On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:00:17PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:53:30PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is that it's a

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-06-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 01 Jun 2007, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: So consider this a +1 for me to get write access to all DD by default in our website. for the content I'm pretty sure that's a good idea. Giving all DDs access to the css could result in a new design every week. Although that sounds like an

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
So consider this a +1 for me to get write access to all DD by default in our website. for the content I'm pretty sure that's a good idea. Giving all DDs access to the css could result in a new design every week. Although that sounds like an interesting thing to watch ;) -- Bernd Zeimetz

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: Anyway, before we get lost in all this prediction stuff, I'm yet to hear a good reason why we need complete triviality in the access method, as opposed to the kind of triviality we have had for years now: all that is necessary to get webwml access is to

cvs commit access to webwml files (Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams)

2007-05-30 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 09:06 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: Anyway, before we get lost in all this prediction stuff, I'm yet to hear a good reason why we need complete triviality in the access method, as opposed to the kind of triviality we have had for

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:45:17PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: Anyway, before we get lost in all this prediction stuff, I'm yet to hear a good reason why we need complete triviality in the access method, as opposed to the kind of triviality we have had for years now: all that is necessary to

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:06:06AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Because most people don't bother when they want to fix only a small detail in a web page. Well, when I want to fix a small detail in some other part of Debian, I usually send a mail or file a bug, I don't automatically think that

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:44:13AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:45:17PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: Anyway, before we get lost in all this prediction stuff, I'm yet to hear a good reason why we need complete triviality in the access method, as opposed to the kind of

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:15:08PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is that it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. Where did you hear this? Word of mouth, usually in conjunction with promises that the

Re: cvs commit access to webwml files (Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams)

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:29:01AM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: But I did the effort of finding the procedure and asking for cvs commit access to the webwml files. To my surprise I got the access granted within 24 hours. Truth be told, you were reasonably lucky to get Matt's ACK and Joey's

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 03:15:31AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: If I already have access and I get an itch, I will scratch it. If I don't, I will either forget about it or complain. I am unlikely to go through whatever bureaucracy is set up to request access. Whether or not this is

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: and the debian-www team is recovering from the shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and that CSS2 is almost stable (err wait, I wasn't reading my calendar properly, we're in 2007 not 1997, sorry). Why

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:53:30PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is that it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. Where did you hear this? How does all that documentation we have had for years at

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:54:34PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: and the debian-www team is recovering from the shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and that CSS2 is almost stable (err wait, I wasn't reading my

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:10:09PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: How were things working in the debian-glibc CVS? Did accidents or hot discussions hapen because of the very opened commit access? No more so than happens today with the more closed SVN repo. But it's not necessarily an indicative

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 20:01, Pierre Habouzit wrote: What was unfair wasn't to say debian-www has issues, it was to put it on the same level than DSA, and for that I appology to the member of the www team Thx. pgpdel5FCQMRF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:30:23PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: It's not unfair to say that web editing is by and large much a easier thing compared to coding the C library. Consequently, the number of people who know how to do it, as well as the people who *think* they know how to do it, is much

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:37:45PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: It's not unfair to say that web editing is by and large much a easier thing compared to coding the C library. Consequently, the number of people who know how to do it, as well as the people who *think* they know how to do it, is

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:02:12AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: Anyway, before we get lost in all this prediction stuff, I'm yet to hear a good reason why we need complete triviality in the access method, as opposed to the kind of triviality we have had for years now: all that is necessary to get

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:56:12AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Yes, you simply submit a bug report with a patch, and wait for a couple of year for it to be applied. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkgdata=www.debian.orgarchive=noversion=dist=unstableinclude=patch That's

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-28 Thread Frank Küster
Francesco P. Lovergine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:56:12AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Yes, you simply submit a bug report with a patch, and wait for a couple of year for it to be applied.

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Christian Perrier
So make the www repo writable by group Debian just like debian-glibc CVS used to be. That sounds to be a fair suggestion. I suppose that changes are posted somewhere (debian-www?) so accidents should be easy to avoid/revert. What would be the risks? A commit/revert war like the one we

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:13:47AM +0200, Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 May 2007 01:53, David Nusinow wrote: The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is that it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. Yes, a complete redesign of the

Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that for a webdesign professional even a redesign would be quite manageable as AFAICT the technical structure of the website

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that for a webdesign professional even a

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: and the debian-www team is recovering from the shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and that CSS2

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that for a webdesign professional even a redesign would be

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 13:31 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: and the debian-www team is recovering from the

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Luis Matos
maybe you can use the debianart.org platform. Dom, 2007-05-27 às 09:30 -0400, Kevin Mark escreveu: On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but contributing to

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:13:37AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: How were things working in the debian-glibc CVS? Did accidents or hot discussions hapen because of the very opened commit access? No more so than happens today with the more closed SVN repo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 04:00:10PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 13:31 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: What you're saying here appears to be that you find Frans' response unhelpful and unconstructive. I didn't read it that way. I think that Pierre meant to say that

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070526 21:52]: In order to try to address that I started a wiki page whose goal is to be a good introductory page to all teams. Anyone who wants to learn more about some teams should be able to consult the page and have an idea of what he/she could do to

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:13:51PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070526 21:52]: In order to try to address that I started a wiki page whose goal is to be a good introductory page to all teams. Anyone who wants to learn more about some teams should be

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 26 May 2007, Andreas Barth wrote: * Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070526 21:52]: In order to try to address that I started a wiki page whose goal is to be a good introductory page to all teams. Anyone who wants to learn more about some teams should be able to consult the page

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:54:06PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2007, Andreas Barth wrote: * Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070526 21:52]: In order to try to address that I started a wiki page whose goal is to be a good introductory page to all teams. Anyone who

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: and the debian-www team is recovering from the shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and that CSS2 is almost stable (err wait, I wasn't reading my calendar properly, we're in 2007 not 1997, sorry). Why don't you join the team?

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: and the debian-www team is recovering from the shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and that CSS2 is almost stable (err wait, I wasn't reading my calendar properly,

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:58, Pierre Habouzit wrote: So well, sorry, but I don't see why I should be part of every mis-functioning team in Debian to have the right to say they do a poor job. Constructive criticism is welcome; ridiculing only shows a bad attitude by the person who does it.

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:11:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: However, I do feel my comment is justified in the sense that if there is one thing in Debian that is the joint responsibility of _all_ DDs, then it is the website. So yes, if you've never contributed in any way to the website, feel

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:11:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: However, I do feel my comment is justified in the sense that if there is one thing in Debian that is the joint responsibility of _all_ DDs, then it is the website. So yes, if you've never contributed in any way to the website, feel

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 06:22:08PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:11:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: However, I do feel my comment is justified in the sense that if there is one thing in Debian that is the joint responsibility of _all_ DDs, then it is the website. So

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:11:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: What you fail to see is that there is not really such a thing as the www team. Basically there are a bunch of people with commit access who all mostly just care about a particular part of the website. For some this is the technical

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 27 May 2007 01:53, David Nusinow wrote: The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is that it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but contributing to specific pages or parts is

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Clint Adams
The wiki is completely centered on English and therefore fails to serve a significant portion of our users. Sure, parts of the wiki are translated, but maintenance of that is an orders of magnitude worse problem than it is for the website. As far as I'm concerned the wiki is not a valid