Roger Dingledine writes:
>
> > > I can't host or mirror the home page, but i would be happy to maintain it.
>
> > How about setting up a cvs repository for the web site, and then setting
> > the web site to do an update every few hours? I can host the pages here no
> > problem, but offering others a login is more difficult.
>
> It sounds like we've got several places that are willing to host the pages,
> and several people willing to do web work to get the pages more up to
> date. I've also noticed that the ELKS pages seem to be distributed pretty
> widely and randomly (a faq here, a mirror there, two (stale?) list archives,
> etc.)
>
> I've gotten several personal mails offering help with getting the project
> "back on track". I propose we try to consolidate a bit more -- given the
> number of people around that want to put time into this, a good webpage
> would be very useful for keeping people informed of what's going on. I
> propose that this webpage should live on the same site as the cvs repository
> for the page, and ideally on the same site/domain as the main ftp site (or
> at least a complete mirror). It should have an elks group with logins for
> the developers, etc. Doesn't have to be extra-spiffy, but it needs to be
> functional, useful, and reliable.
>
> I've seen some mentions of mirror sites (and redirects, eg elks.doa.org).
> doa: can you offer the above? I can set it up on the seul machines if
> nobody else has the infrastructure in place for it. Speak up now, else I'll
> try to deal.
I suggest elks.doa.org as a good site as that is where the current cvs
setup is. Of course this is up to Simon Weijgers who runs the CVS stuff
at doa.
>
> A bigger question: there's a lot of discussion about web maintenance, but
> is anybody actually doing dev work on elks itself? I can't blame them for
> ignoring the list given its recent content, but getting a couple of status
> reports so they could go on the (future) website would be kind of useful.
>
I am currently actively developing elks (right now in fact) as is Blaz
Antonic, and some others (depending on free time etc.).
If someone has the time to implement and maintain it, we could include
info on the pages about who is working on what right now based on recent
cvs updates. I also suggest a news file in the CVS area which is munged
into a HTML news page by a CGI script. People can then just add entries to
it as they do stuff. An open system like this would also mean that people
could add documentation such as howtos etc. without having to overload one
person who has to maintain the site.
Just to keep everyone up to date, I am currently working on the init
related programs (init, login, getty, utmp issues), as a breather from my
work on shared libraries which is ongoing.
Al
