Hello Damien, welcome, and sorry for the late reply El 18/06/17 a las 05:24, Damien O'Brien escribió: > > Hello. > > My name is Damien O'Brien, I would like to work on updating the Debian > website. > With better support for mobile, modern and older browsers as well as > accessibility support for screen readers and the likes. >
Great! > Is there a Git where I can contribute my time towards this project? > We don't use git (yet), we use CVS to maintain the website sources. Migrating to git is being discussed but it's a complex task. How the website works is detailed in this page: https://www.debian.org/devel/website/ and its subpages (one of them dedicated to CVS). However, you can contribute with no need to deal with the version control system. The best to start is to just have a look at the source file corresponding to the page you'd like to improve. You can browse the source files of the english tree of the website with no need of knowing/dealing with CVS: https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english and for example our main CSS template: https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/debian.css?view=markup If you'd like to change something but don't know the corresponding source file, just ask here in the list or in the IRC channel (#debian-www at irc.debian.org) and we can guide you based on your specific question. Please have a look at this view of the open bugs in the Debian website, classified by topic/main task https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=www.debian.org%40packages.debian.org The tag "design", for example, includes some bugs related to better accessibility. > If i can be made a maintainer that would be much appreciated. > You can create an account in Alioth and your contributions via the bug tracking system, wiki editions, and others can be shown in our list https://contributors.debian.org After some contributions to the website (that other members of the team can upload for you), you can join the corresponding project in Alioth and get permissions to commit yourself. As the Debian website is not a Debian package, contributors that want to become Debian members by their website work can apply for non-uploading-DD, applying for becoming Debian Maintainer does not make sense unless you maintain Debian packages. But in both cases, first you contribute for some time, later you apply for the membership. So no need to worry about that, for now :) > My main focus would be to update the code base to a more modern > framework while touching on some of the other areas like mentioned in > the to-do lists. > The website is big and the team maintaining it (content and infrastructure) is small, so big changes in the code base are difficult because usually they require much resources (several people coordinating, time, skills, motivation...). We are happy to review and apply specific changes that don't break the current workflow, but please open bug reports and be as much specific as you can in your proposals. You can checkout the entire website source and test your ideas if you install perl and wml, and do "make" in the folders you change to create the html pages from the wml sources. You can also learn about the different parts of the website and how they are built having a look at the build logs: https://www-master.debian.org/build-logs/ Again, the section https://www.debian.org/devel/website/ and all its subpages explain many details about how the Debian website works. > > I look forward to hearing back from you. > Thanks for your interest in Debian and its website. Best regards -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
