Thanks Laura! I participated in a bof "Debian Website BoF" during DebConf18, this opportunity I also made some comments on the KallesDesign. I imagine we have notes on the Gobby. I think other than a contest/competition to choose the "best design proposals", we can make a call to people to send improvements to KallesDesign[1], continuing the work that has been done, a standard design and architecture for all subsites of the Debian project.
Count on my collaboration! I suggest that we do some work during the next DebCamp. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/KallesDesign Cheers, Valessio Brito www.valessiobrito.com.br Em seg, 15 de abr de 2019 às 21:38, Laura Arjona Reina <[email protected]> escreveu: > > Dear all > > Below you can find the report of the sprint that some members of the > Debian web team had last March. > The Summary part will be posted as article in bits.debian.org soon, with > photo :-) > > Thanks Rhonda, Steve, Thomas and Carsten for coming, thanks to everybody > who made it possible, and to all the teammates that before and after the > sprint are helping with the improvement of the Debian website. Hopefully > we'll meet again in the future! > > Kind regards, > > -- > Laura Arjona Reina > https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona > > > # Report of the Debian Web Team Sprint > > ## Summary > > The [Debian Web team](https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Webmaster) held a > [sprint](https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2019/DebianWebTeam) for the > first time, in Madrid (Spain) from March 15th to March 17th, 2019. > > We discussed the status of the Debian website in general, review several > important pages/sections and agreed on many things how to improve them. > > For the sections we want to reorganise (mainly the homepage and a new > section "download" which will group our current "CD" and "distrib" > sections) , we have designed this workflow: > * Create branches in the webwml repo, > * Agreed on the new or modified content (started already during the > sprint), and work on them further after the sprint > * Review a lot of related open bugs to see if we can address them with > the new content (done during the sprint) > * Create bug reports for the things that cannot be solved quickly to > keep them tracked (started during the sprint) > * We agreed we should get further help from web designers/information > architects (pending) > * Once the English version is more or less settled, call for > translations on the branch (pending) > * If we have English and the main translations ready, merging into the > master branch (pending) > * We will try to have at least the homepage and the download section > ready for the Buster release. > > We also agreed that the press delegates should decide what new News > entry is worth to be posted in the homepage instead of showing the last > 6 entries. > > For some other pages or areas (e.g. doc/books, misc/merchandise, /users) > we found that the content is outdated and the team can not maintain it, > we agreed in issuing a call for help (request for adoption) and if we > cannot find volunteers for those pages/areas, we'll remove the content > or move it to wiki.debian.org at the end of 2019. > > We have agreed that we'll need to reduce the size (number of pages) of > the website (*see some numbers about statistics at bottom) so it's more > sustainable to keep the whole website up-to-date (content wise), so > we'll remove some pages having content already covered in other pages, > having content that currently is easy discoverable with a web search > engine, can be maintained better in the wiki, etc. > > We have talked a bit about certain other aspects like point release > workflow, the build time of the website, team memberships and > governance. In general the sprint has shown that for most of the > discussed topics the migration to git as VCS and the existence of Salsa > is a huge step forward for the usability and attractiveness for > contributors of the webwml repository. > > The core webteam is happy that the sprint has also attracted new people > to jump in and which are also members of the webteam now. We welcome > Thomas Lange and Carsten Schoenert in our team! > > Finally, we have passed time together to socialize and knowing each > other better, and got very motivated to continue working on the web. > > The participants would like to thank all donors to the Debian project > who helped to cover a large part of our expenses. > > ## Details > > ### Debian website homepage (www.debian.org/index) > > Thomas Lange had made a proposal of a new homepage in DebConf18, and we > came back to it and agreed on how to deploy it. > We have two main goals in mind: To simplify the starting homepage so > it's more attractive to newcomers, and to show the social aspect of the > project as well as the operating system that we develop. > > A review of the whole website is also needed at some time, but we agreed > on starting with the homepage and the pages that will be accessed from > it. So the basic proposal is: > > Homepage: > > Debian is about People > > People > > Philosophy > > Get involved > > More (here you can access all the pages that are present currently > in the website and not linked above) > > Debian is an OS > > Download > > Security > > Support > > More (here you can access all the pages that are present currently > in the website and not linked above) > > > All this is being done in the [branch new-homepage of the webwml > repo](https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/tree/new-homepage). > > You can see the most recent WIP homepage in > https://debian-newhomepage.larjona.net > > Related bugs: > #696873 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] Better place for "download > debian" button > #815689 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: Show recent > project news (not only announcements + security updates) on the homepage > #862980 [n|⎈| ] [www.debian.org] Update the homepage, to show > the social face of the project, and be more attractive for newcomers > #188617 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: [front page] > would like link to intro/organization from left-side navbar > #905352 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] add section "Why Debian" to > the home page > #924942 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: Suggestion; on > the new people page, add a welcome message and a photo of the current DPL > > We also agreed that the press delegates will decide what new News entry > is worth to be posted in the homepage > instead of showing the last 6 entries. > > ### CD/Distrib sections > > We have several long standing bugs about the CD and distrib sections, > these sections should be merged together and also they need to be > simplified and with specific step by step instructions. > > We don't want that the download button in the homepage downloads a > specific ISO any more, instead we'd like it to take the user to a simple > page explaining how to choose their preferred image, download it, > verify it and install (see below in this report for details). > > We created an initial new structure of the new "Download" page, agreed > on its content, and created a [branch > new-cd_distrib-section](https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/tree/new-cd_distrib-section) > to work on it. > > You can see the WIP download page in > https://debian-newdownload.larjona.net/download > > Related bugs: > #819664 Re-organise the CD / download pages to make them more useful > #695681 document available cloud options under www.debian.org/distrib/ > #720989 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: unexperienced > users fail to download installation media especially for usb drives > #851541 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: CD/verify > should include long key IDs > #902668 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] Draft for rewrite of > https://www.debian.org/CD/verify > #381555 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] > http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ : add link to iso md5 checksum > #612116 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: /CD/ should > now redirect to the new /distrib/ > #640054 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] Download pages should have > prominent links to image verification instructions > #705209 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: Ask for a > donation while people are downloading Debian > #709004 [w|+| ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: Please mention > win32-loader on "Getting Debian" webpage > #722906 [w| |=] [www.debian.org] Document additional methods for > validating Debian-distributed files > #797342 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: simple and > easy to use download page > #925300 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] Debian home page: Cleaning up > the "Getting Started" paragraph > > ## Review of other sections > > Some info that is shown in our homepage had made sense many years ago > but now it's irrelevant because anybody can find the same info or even > more updated using a simple web search. > > So we have agreed on removing these: > > * /events/speakers > * /misc/related_links > * /ports/beowulf pages (and review/remove other mentions) > * obsolete pages about CVS, and links to them > > We have issued "RFA (Request for Adoption)" mails (call for help) in > these pages/sections > * /doc/books > * /misc/merchandise > * /users > And gladly several persons already jumped in and offered to volunteer on > maintaining those :-) > > ### Other work > > Simplified the built-time code massively and make it correct by stop > trying to use the GEN_TIME stuff, and just use gmtime() directly in > english/template/debian/ctime.wml > > We'd like to change the footer with list of languages because sometimes > is too long, so we're working in a list of languages able to be > shown/hidden with CSS styling. > Rhonda has done some work. > Related Bug: > #924889 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] Use a drop down selector > (without JS) to switch the language of the website > > ### Review of bug list > > We have reviewed the bug list and during the sprint or soon after it we > have closed these bugs: > > #614233 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: Debian = "Debian > GNU/Linux" + "Debian GNU/kFreeBSD" > #924888 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] try to remove the /misc section > (reviewing and reorganising content) > #251218 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] /devel/people gives recognition > for quantity of packages, not quality > #320426 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: Releases page > doesn't advise mailing list sub > #439671 [w|☹| ] [www.debian.org] doc-debian: bug in social > contract, section 4? > #515814 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] www.debian.org: Please provide > source for pdf-graphics in devel/debian-med/News/2009/20090214.wml > #845297 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] [www.debian.org] Website > transition from CVS to Git > #924135 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] clean-up: old .cvsignore files > #197392 [m| | ] [www.debian.org] several www.debian.org URLs > contain capital letters > #98811 [w| | ] [www.debian.org] Future or updated pages should use > XHTML 1 if possible > #832920 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] redirect HTTP to HTTPS on > www.debian.org > #924120 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] Say "netinst multi-arch CD images" > #924164 [n| | ] [www.debian.org] Don't say use Jigdo > > ### Governance and workflows > We have noticed that the group of people behind [email protected], > the group of people in the debwww group and the group of people "owner" > in the Salsa repos are not the same. We'll try to communicate with > everybody involved and review each of those permission groups. > > ### Statistics: > 52000 wml files over all! > > 891 consultants > 1046 vote > 1170 releases > 1801 devel > 2024 users > 2656 events (only events until 2013) > 7809 News > 31631 security > > > -- > Laura Arjona Reina > https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona >
