new developer's corner
Just wanted to say that I like it. Good job. Jay Treacy
Re: new developer's corner
James A. Treacy wrote: Just wanted to say that I like it. Good job. it links to http://www.debian.org/devel/extract that doesn't exist. -- see shy jo
Re: new developer's corner
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote: Just wanted to say that I like it. Good job. 1) Is it still mirroring? Not Found The requested URL /devel/extract was not found on this server. BTW whatever that is it may be somewhat overlapping with the search function on db.debian.org - perhaps they should be merged? 2) Xearth marker file Do people want to resume the project to get this mostly complete? I have the necessary fields in the LDAP directory, web and console forms to manipulate them, etc 3) Debian-Admin address This should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] [note the lists] 4) Release Info Is potato really called 2.2? Past releases, hamm, bo, rex and buzz are available online at archive.debian.org they should probably be linked from this page too? The 'download here' link for the hamm release is also incorrect, it needs to refer to the archive server and it's mirrors. I don't think CD images for hamm are online anymore and I doubt anyone sells them [??] 5) Release Info #2 Why are there two links one after another with the same name and different content? : APT is all caps [it is an acronym], and 'part 3' sounds a bit strange - 'version 3' is probably better. There are also two bold headings in the blue column with nothing in them 6) RC bugs - There is a #Fixme showing 7) PAM link The PAM link is bad - I once found a working HTTP site that one could read the PAM pages from, it was a russian kernel mirror or somesuch 8) Machines table This is out of date again lets see.. - Albert is down until further notice (probably indefinately) - saens runs unstable - murphy runs unstable - new machine: lully.debian.org - alpha, runs unstable - new machine: debussy.debian.org - arm, runs unstable Jason
Re: new developer's corner
A few minor comments on the page. The line: The information on this page, while public,... appears twice. Removing the one from templates/debian/develpage.wml leaves the one I think was intended. This leaves only two lines in develpage.wml. Perhaps they should just be rolled into develbar.wml (or better, the contents of develbar.wml added to develpage.wml). Also, the hr on the next line should be removed. Put h1Developers' Corner/h1 just before the line mentioned in the previous paragraph. We can remove the link to the Japanese version of the policy manual as it can be (is?) linked from the Japanese version of the page. Of course, the policy manual should be available in multiple langs using content negotiation alongside the english version (I haven't checked, maybe it is). The debian-doc group could use some help along these lines. The menubar has two lines that are wider than it when using Netscape (probably depends on the font sizes chosen whether this happens). One is 'Policy Manual-Japanese Version' which may be removed and the other is 'Lintian-Policy Compliance Checking'. The second is long without being clear. Suggestions for something shorter? Remove the link to devel/release_info. All the information here should be available under releases/. There are two copies of 'Release Information' at the bottom of the menubar, neither of which links to anything. Hope this helps. Jay Treacy
Re: new developer's corner
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 10:31:24PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: 1) Is it still mirroring? Not Found The requested URL /devel/extract was not found on this server. should have been extract_key fixing now.. BTW whatever that is it may be somewhat overlapping with the search function on db.debian.org - perhaps they should be merged? shrug I don't know enough about the db.debian.org project, really. Is there a faq? 2) Xearth marker file Do people want to resume the project to get this mostly complete? I have the necessary fields in the LDAP directory, web and console forms to manipulate them, etc I am willing to put a link back.. but since the existing one was so outdated, I didn't think it a good idea to leave it.. 3) Debian-Admin address This should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] [note the lists] Hmm That's not in devel page...??? 4) Release Info Is potato really called 2.2? Past releases, hamm, bo, rex and buzz are available online at archive.debian.org they should probably be linked from this page too? The 'download here' link for the hamm release is also incorrect, it needs to refer to the archive server and it's mirrors. I don't think CD images for hamm are online anymore and I doubt anyone sells them [??] I think all of that should be in the release page... the first release info link. 5) Release Info #2 Why are there two links one after another with the same name and different content? : APT is all caps [it is an acronym], and 'part 3' sounds a bit strange - 'version 3' is probably better. There are also two bold headings in the blue column with nothing in them I can't find an APT that's not capped or a part 3 6) RC bugs - There is a #Fixme showing bad attept to comment... 7) PAM link The PAM link is bad - I once found a working HTTP site that one could read the PAM pages from, it was a russian kernel mirror or somesuch We'll see if BenC has a different link.. remind me in IRC if I forget.. 8) Machines table This is out of date again lets see.. - Albert is down until further notice (probably indefinately) - saens runs unstable - murphy runs unstable - new machine: lully.debian.org - alpha, runs unstable - new machine: debussy.debian.org - arm, runs unstable Saved for a later update... I think the official list is in the developers reference... I'll see if I can get that author to keep this page, also.. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. = * http://benham.net/index.html[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * ---* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * = pgpzdwLjCbawT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: new developer's corner
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, James A. Treacy wrote: Not Found The requested URL /devel/extract was not found on this server. Should be http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/pgp_key_extract.pl It looks like we can move this over to db.debian.org where it will be much more usefull with quite broad search capabilities. Hopefully by next week. 2) Xearth marker file Do people want to resume the project to get this mostly complete? I have the necessary fields in the LDAP directory, web and console forms to manipulate them, etc I'll set up something soon(*) if someone doesn't beat me to it. Well, I have all the stuff, we just need to get a script that re-generates the xearth file from the DB and another script to do a one time import of the existing xearth file. Jason
Re: new developer's corner
Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Well, I have all the stuff, we just need to get a script that re-generates the xearth file from the DB and another script to do a one time import of the existing xearth file. Given how long it's been since thatxearth file was made, and how little data is in it anyway, I wonder if the second script is needed at all? (I for one have moved 3 times since I provided my coordinates.) -- see shy jo
Re: document matrix generation in releases/slink/
I don't know if it's kosher for me to modify languages.wml instead of working around this way. IMHO, the best idea would be to add it there, to have them all in one place. It's not that unlikely that another page would like to use the info as well. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ - and God said: nohup make World World.log
Re: new developer's corner
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like we can move this over to db.debian.org where it will be much more usefull with quite broad search capabilities. Hopefully by next week. Does this have secure login yet? -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
Re: new developer's corner
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We can remove the link to the Japanese version of the policy manual as it can be (is?) linked from the Japanese version of the page. Of course, the policy manual should be available in multiple langs using content negotiation alongside the english version (I haven't checked, maybe it is). The debian-doc group could use some help along these lines. Yes... I agree. I wonder if the Debian Policy l10n'd versions are in CVS along with Policy itself? Hmm... I'll check that out. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
Re: new developer's corner
Adam Di Carlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does this have secure login yet? Yes - https://db.debian.org Guy
Re: For the Abolishment of Ports
On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 09:48:35AM -0700, David Bristel wrote: While I agree that being completely i386 oriented on the web page, I will point out that the vast majority of systems out there are x86 based(I don't like the i386 since I've prefered AMD CPUs over Intel since the 486 days). This being the case, I'd suggest going to a more even homepage, with the focus being all the different platforms. So on the homepage, we would simply have X86, MIPS, Alpha, M68K, etc... as the links, each of which would have it's own news page. This may seem like it would fragment out the different flavors of Debian, but it would at least make it appear that we are being impartial about which platform gets the most focus. I would also like to propose that we get away from having a single version number to cover each platform. The reason for this is that we can release for individual platforms at different times, and not hold up the release for one platform that may have problems. The version numbers will remain consistant for the features, but I will point out that glibc 2.1 was released into Sparc when slink was released, while it was not yet implemented in the other distributions. If we set a feature list for Potato, it should be consistant across the different platforms. Your system would require a lot more manpower to keep the web pages up to date. This would simply lead to the web pages for some ports being chronically out of date. Besides, that manpower could be much better used improving the distribution. I also agree with a previous responder that the different architectures should be treated equally. When setting up the pages for the different ports, I considered using separate pages for each port and quickly abandoned the approach for a number of reasons. People from the various ports agreed. As far as package numbering is concerned, this is a much bigger issue and would need to be discussed on debian-devel. Don't get your hopes up about getting anywhere with that suggestion though. :) Only a small percentage of packages need to be compiled specially for each architecture. Once a port advances far enough, they can auto-compile most packages and do quite a good job of 'keeping up' with the i386 port. Jay Treacy
Re: document matrix generation in releases/slink/
On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 10:16:07AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote:
and I also don't know the strings to add to language_names.wml.
The name in English (in all lowercase) is the hash key, and the value is its
translated name. Be sure to add the name in English to all the languages (so
that yet untranslated copies will get the name in English).
Just to be explicit about it, here is an example where I only knew the
French words for Croatian and French. The translators will take care
of everything else:
fr = {
finnish= finnish,
croatian = croate,
english= english,
danish = danish,
french = franE7ais,
german = german,
italian= italian,
japanese = japanese,
},
Should I just go ahead anyway and add stuff to the %langs hash in
languages.wml? What would that break? Nothing?
Go ahead and add them. There is no harm in adding languages that aren't
yet used in our section of the web site.
Additionally, if you need anything new implemented, discuss it with us.
It only makes sense for us to share these resources. No point in having
translators duplicate work.
Jay Treacy
Re: document matrix generation in releases/slink/
permute_as_matrix('install', 'english', 'croatian', 'czech', ..)
Speaking of which, please take the Perl scripts out of the page and #include
them instead, so that I don't need to update the translation each time the
script changes (like when only the number of languages change). That would
simplify a great deal.
Of course, the text strings in the script need to be moved to slices then.
--
\\//
Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
When answering to mailing list or news posting, please do not Cc me
personally. Thanks.
Bug#44583: Wrong links and info in German on PowerPC pages
Forwarding to the maintainer of the powerpc pages. Please close the bug when you fix the pages. On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 03:40:37PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Package: www.debian.org Version: On http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/docu, the first links do not work: Not Found The requested URL /releases/potato/powerpc/release-notes/index was not found on this server. There is no release-notes directory under potato yet. Did you mean to write slink? Also, some sentences are in German: Gerneral Informationen for Installation, MkLinux and Prozessoren/Microcontroller Jay Treacy
Re: link to logos page
Ok, so I didn't notice that links to the logo page have already been added to the menubar AND the logo itself. :) That gives us three links to the logo page (including the one from the developers' corner. And yes, I checked and it is still on the new devel corner page). How about removing the one from the menubar? Jay Treacy
Re: new developer's corner
On 15 Sep 1999, Adam Di Carlo wrote: Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It looks like we can move this over to db.debian.org where it will be much more usefull with quite broad search capabilities. Hopefully by next week. Does this have secure login yet? https://db.debian.org/ It uses mod_ssl in apache. Expect an SSL enabled ldap server in Q1 2000 or so. There is also a PGP signed/encrypted mail gateway for changing passwords. Jason
Re: new developer's corner
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Joey Hess wrote: Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Well, I have all the stuff, we just need to get a script that re-generates the xearth file from the DB and another script to do a one time import of the existing xearth file. Given how long it's been since thatxearth file was made, and how little data is in it anyway, I wonder if the second script is needed at all? (I for one have moved 3 times since I provided my coordinates.) Then all that is needed really is to provide two fields for lat/long. What I'd like to do is also permit a country code+address to generate a lat/long if one is not explicitly given [probably from the info in /usr/share/zoneinfo] that will get us lots more entries Jason
Re: new developer's corner
James A. Treacy said: Just wanted to say that I like it. Good job. It missed the IPv6 page link, which I am about to put back in. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ, PGP: AD 8D D8 63 6E BF C3 C7 47 41 B1 A2 1F 46 EC 90 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIEEE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian developer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
