On 2019-8-15 23:58 , Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 15:27, Joshua Root wrote: >> >> I think ports.macports.org is already clearly superior to ports.php, so >> we should change the Available Ports link to point there. However, we >> should not remove ports.php so as not to break existing links. I think >> we should make ports.php queries redirect to the corresponding p.m.o URL >> when possible (it won't always be possible since ports.php lets you >> search more fields). > > What about specifying what is still missing and adding that > functionality to the new app?
Sure, that would be even better, but presumably takes time. :) >From a little testing, ports.php lets you search by platforms (not that useful TBH), and tries to let you search by license, but it doesn't actually work. >> Thoughts? > > I would definitely like to get a clear visible link to the main > website, as well as some post to macports-users and macports-announce. > Potentially we could even keep both sites for a little while. But what > would also be nice to do is some ability to back-link to the main > website from ports. Do we have someone with clear suggestions about > the landing page of ports.macports.org? Yes, there should definitely be at least a link back to www.macports.org from ports.macports.org. ML posts can be done too but are not blocking website changes. :) > https://github.com/macports/macports-webapp/issues/47 > > ports.php is simply part of the main page, so it's easy to keep > navigating to other parts of the site; we would need to add something > to the new app as well. Some kind of top / global menu, and definitely > improving the landing page. Yes, that would be nice too. I still think it's better than ports.php even as-is though. - Josh
