Before anyone else spends a second creating or editing existing website or wiki content we need to sort this project's face out. The current website(s) and wiki(s) are a mess, to continue to add content without sorting this out is simply a waste of time. As I see it we have three veins:
1. Project promotion (this includes news). 2. Community support and documentation. 3. Community resources and applications. These three fit perfectly in three websites: 1. E.org 2. Trac 3. Exchange But outside of this we have a wealth of internal sites and subdomains that is a real mess, I can easily find 5 different guides of installing e17. We need to cut this out and fit the corresponding content in the corresponding venue. Before writing anything else let me say: We need to show Exchange more love, in the backend and the frontend, to make it more appealing for external application developers to announce their project news and updates there. This produces dynamic lists and content we can reuse without effort and without forcing them to create pages on our wiki and update some application table on the wiki. I didn't write much about exchange in the new TODO [0] and SITEMAP [1] files I uploaded recently, but as I dig out and research what we have and the way other similar projects are organized I realize that having a wealthy and active exchange is a winning move. [0] http://www.enlightenment.org/dev/README.html#todo [1] http://www.enlightenment.org/dev/SITEMAP.html I thought both of these files were more or less complete, but as I said the more I dig the more I find and their content might be out of date compared to this mail. I ask you to review these files after reading this mail and let me know what you think, we need to agree to some structure at least in our facade. The other subject of this mail are the subdomains. I'm talking not about the services they provide in the backend but what is presented when a simple http request is done on the root folder. http://forum.enlightenment.org/ We need an user forum but having users to register multiple times in multiple sites is ridiculous so I suggest to REDIRECT this to a trac page using DiscussionPlugin: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/DiscussionPlugin instead of the current forum. I don't have the permissions to do this or anything else outside the SVN tree but I would gladly take the time to install this if asked to. http://svn.enlightenment.org/ REDIRECT to a wiki page that explains how to download either the full SVN tree or specific folders, as an anonymous and as a registered user. Installation of E17 is covered by linking to the installation section of the E17 user guide. http://docs.enlightenment.org/ REDRECT to a wiki page containing basically the same info, internal files will be served as requested. http://trac.enlightenment.org/ REDIRECT to http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/ http://packages.enlightenment.org/ REDIRECT to a wiki page containing the same info, Files that do not use the repository system (like window packages) should be in Download and pointed from the wiki page. http://download.enlightenment.org/ Should remain as the point of manually downloading anything E related outside SVN. We can update the look and feel of the directory listing to match the rest of the site and including links to wiki pages that might be of interest. There are other sites and subdomains that should be merged into these three veins I talked about and can be found in the stage 3 of the todo list: http://www.enlightenment.org/dev/README.html#stage-3-design-of-external-sites-and-doxygen I have read all mails written about this in the past and I traced my plans taking every idea into consideration, but if you feel I missed one make sure to let me know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
