On 1 Mar 2004, at 12:15, Marcus Sundman wrote:
I think the best solution would be to have one page with news <N days
old, and
then have a completely separate news archive where news are
categorized by
month/year/whatever. The former could have news from both Jakarta and
elsewhere on the same page, preventing people from having to check two
URLs
when reading news. The latter could have different categories for
Jakarta
news and other news.
that's probably true but it would require active maintenance to keep it
up to date. so, probably some sort of consensus would be needed amongst
those who'll be doing this extra work before going ahead.
Huh? Surely the news items are entries in a database of some sort, or are you
implying that someone actually modifies html files directly?!
the web site is almost all static. jakarta (and most of the apache stuff) is generated using anakia from xml source by volunteers on their own machines and then committed into CVS.
a major reason for this is that (until recently) the apache website ran on a very low specification machine (infrastructure's httpd gurus could even make a pig fly ;). we now have a better web server but running a lot of dynamic content on it would probably be problematic. IIRC there was talk (in infrastructure) about being able to loan some better machines from sponsors on which jakarta (and the other ASF projects) could run dynamic content but i'm no longer in the infrastructure loop so now would be good time for better informed people to jump in...
maybe it'd be cool to have a complete latest-first index of all news
stories in the news index page. that way, not only would it be a useful
resource but also it'd be a fixed page for people to book mark.
Yes.
(Well, it would be "cool" in the sense that it is "cool" that you can edit
text in a text editor.)
cool in the sense of a-useful-resource-that-jakartaens-might-feel-motivated-to-maintain. anyone else have any opinions on this?
- robert
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