Timofei Shatrov wrote: > Hello Zach, > > Wednesday, February 22, 2006, 11:36:09 PM, you wrote: > > ZB> Paolo Amoroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>>I realize that my frankness may sound harsh. I am aware that >>>volunteer labor is a gift, and that Real Life takes its toll. But I >>>would like to understand why the CLD has received so little help, and >>>whether this may have any implications for current and future >>>gardeners projects. > > > ZB> A few days ago Marc added my new zpb-ttf library to the CLD and made > ZB> me an administrator (if that is the right word) for the page. He said > ZB> "change it if you like". > > ZB> I went to the site but could not find my package by clicking on any > ZB> links. I also had a hard time figuring out that dark blue text is a > ZB> link and light blue text is normal text. > > ZB> I finally found my entry by using the search box. I noticed it said > ZB> "not asdf installable". I tried to edit the page, but the form is very > ZB> large and it is not clear what to click to make the changes > ZB> permanent. I clicked "preview" and it went to a new page, but I do not > ZB> know if the changes were saved. There was no widget on the "preview" > ZB> page to say "save permanently". > > ZB> I am currently too baffled by the interface for both a user and editor > ZB> to want to use the site in the future. > > Yeah, the interface could be improved. For starts, any user should be > able to submit changes. I wanted to soup up the entry about my > project, but was unable to do so. If I release a new version, I won't > be able to update. That sucks. >
Would it be possible to use info from .ASD files to make this more automatic? The Directory could poll a given url every so often for this .asd file, and update its info accordingly. Changed .asd's could be listed in Recent Changes. I'm looking at the following list: :Project-Name :Description :eMail :Web-site :Mailing-list :Version :Maturity :OS-compatibility :asdf-installable :Official-Download :Mirrored-Download :Source-code-repository :Compatible-Implementations :Required-Libraries :Authors-and-Maintainers :Tags :Comments and I'm impressed that Paolo has the stamina to do hundreds of these things, but lesser mortals find that huge. Presumably, many of these fields could be added to an ASDF format? Or is ASDF too rigid? Tayssir _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
