On Jan 6, 5:30 pm, David Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: > Oisín, I will mentor you through these changes if you want to learn. You just > need to get authorization for a plan from Chris or whoever is in charge here. > Chris? Anyone? > > David
Okay, sounds like a good plan - I'd be happy to try, but can't dig into it until my PhD writeup is finished (which, at the current rate, looks like black hole time, but... you know :D). Hence why I was looking for a quick fix first! Oisín > On Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: > > > On Jan 3, 5:03 pm, David Siegel <[email protected] (http://gmail.com)> > > wrote: > > > Here's an article demonstrating many of these recommendations: > > > >http://datadesk.latimes.com/posts/2012/01/sphinx-on-github/ > > > > David > > > Hi David, > > > Thanks for the link, that seems like a powerful workflow. I'm not sure > > if I have the power or ability to do those things, but maybe someone > > does! > > > ta, > > Oisín > > > > On Monday, January 2, 2012 at 11:43 AM, David Siegel wrote: > > > > Oisín, thank you for taking this on. > > > > > I receive a few emails per month about this issue, and although I don't > > > > see it as my concern since I haven't been involved in the project for a > > > > few years, I do have some recommendations: > > > > > * Move the project from Launchpad/Bazaar to GitHub/Git. > > > > * Move the entire website, including the wiki, under version control. > > > > * Create a Git-based workflow for contributing to and updating the > > > > website, which reuses the same authentication and group permissions as > > > > the code host, so that anyone can proposes merges for the website, and > > > > any contributor can push updates to the live site. > > > > > As far as the Git-based workflow is concerned, I would recommend > > > > porting the existing site to a static site generator such as Jekyll or > > > > Middleman. If the new website were build with one of these static > > > > generators, and hosted on GitHub, we could use GitHub's static website > > > > serving (GitHub Pages) to automatically serve the site from the Git > > > > repo. This would naturally inherit GitHub's team authentication, solve > > > > the spam problem, and give us a much more robust way to make and > > > > publish changes. > > > > > David > > > > > On Saturday, December 31, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Oisín Mac Fhearaí wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I went to the Do website on davebsd.com (http://davebsd.com) today to > > > > > look for some basic > > > > > instructions on using Do. Eventually I found the instructions, but not > > > > > before being totally bombarded by spam. So I cleaned up a few of the > > > > > pages, reverting months of crud from spammers fighting each other. > > > > > Checking again about 8 hours later, there were already a bunch more > > > > > new pages created by spambots. > > > > > If nobody has time to install some kind of Captcha tool or something, > > > > > then maybe new page creation should be disabled, or even all edits to > > > > > the wiki other than by one or two admins? > > > > > > Also it would be nice to update the version info - at the moment it > > > > > says the last release was in 2009, and the immediate impression the > > > > > site gives is that the project is dead, which it apparently is not! :) > > > > > > p.s. Happy new year! > > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > > Groups "GNOME Do" group. > > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > > > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > > > > For more options, visit this group > > > > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "GNOME Do" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GNOME Do" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gnome-do?hl=en.
