-------- Original Message -------- From: Aaron Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:20:57 +0000 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [mozilla-reorg] FYI: Initial work Ah I see. *** Logging in and looking at code *** Actaully I wish I could log in and look at the Zope code. At this point, I'm really interested in looking at how this is all being do *** New Look and Feel *** Let's do away with the old look immediately! As soon as possible, we should start with a new front page, and evolve it from there. Otherwise we'll less free to think fresh, explore and experiment. Let's start with something clean fresh, clean and different, with the main items we think need to be linked to on the front page. Anyone else agree? Let's start with a design that makes us feel like we're not just re-implementing the old site. We can unveil the brand-new site, with the new look & feel, at the same time we release Mozilla 1.0. This will give people the impression that there is new stuff to look at, and they'll check us out with a fresh perspective, rather than "oh same stuff as before". People will then take Mozilla 1.0 a bit more seriously. *** Migration of dox: Tortoise or Hare approach? *** We need to look at the content of docs that we migrate, rather than doing it en masse. I know this is a bit like counting the Florida votes by hand, very laborious, but a huge part of our problem is out-of-date content. We need to take inventory - a dox triaging team. Only content that has gone through the team and updated should make it to the new site. By taking a close inventory, setting the bar high for the new site, and really thinking about each doc that gets to make it to the new site, we can make sure that bad, incomplete and inaccurate stuff doesn't make it over. I propose that we don't try to rush the content in the new site or try to have a 1-1 correspondence of old content to new content. As far as I'm concerned, the old site will stay around for a while, until the new site has everything we need. /The new site must be of certifiable quality./ We can check in old content translated to new content by using the Zope contributor management system. We'll use the old site as a source for content, find things we like, fix it up, put it in the new format and bring it over for others to look at and modify, and the inventory it. A slow, but sure, growth of the new site. Who cares if at first the new site has half the stuff the old site has, as long as it's guaranteed to be up-to-date, accurate and helpful? It will eventually grow into everything we need. We won't build it the new site in one day. Bottom line is, we must have the attitude of building a new site, not an exact replacement. Aaron
