Debian Hugo Website
Hey, My name is Abraham Raji and I'm a Debian User and Contributor. If you're already working to shift the Debian website to Hugo, I'd like to volunteer to help. I'm a UI/UX designer and a frontend developer and have worked with Hugo in the past. Looking forward to your reply. Sincerely, Abraham Raji
Re: Complete Website Revamp
Hey, If I'm being honest though we could use a better looking website with easier ways to do things, bringing in react or vue seems like an overkill. I don't really see any merit in doing that especially since our use case is so simple. Please explain your car further. Sincerely, Abraham Raji On 2021, മാർച്ച് 20 3:52:22 PM IST, Arpit Patidar wrote: >Hello Debian Team, > >I am Arpit Patidar, the founder and Chief Operating Officer of MarsX > >I have recently switched from Ubuntu to Debian and I love it. Its great. >but I noticed that the website look hasn't been updated in ages and it >looks pretty much outdated. > >And so, I would like to propose a complete revamp of website where we >switch from wml to advanced frontend frameworks like Vue/React.js. coz I >think there is literally a huge community of debian and the website now >needs an update. > >with the help of community we can update the entire site in 2-3 months. >so, I guess we should ask the community about the website revamp. > > >Thanks. > >Also, if you guys need my help then I would love to help the team out >with the frontend. > >Waiting for your response. > > >Arpit Patidar > >Founder and Chief Operating Officer of MarsX >
Re: A new style for the Debian Project website
In all honesty, I've wanted to do this for a while but I didn't know who to go to. I also felt that since a functioning system is already in place the admins wouldn't be very open to any radical changes. I do think that moving to a modern framework will make it easier to maintain the website, to add new features as per need and to find more people willing and able to contribute. It may take a while to get it up and running but in my opinion the effort would be totally worth it. I am a product designer and web developer who uses Debian GNU/Linux as his daily driver. I also contribute to ruby, js and go teams on Debian by maintaining a few packages. I also help organize Debian events in India. I'm very much invested in the Debian Project and would wholeheartedly volunteer my time to build a new website for Debian. Sincerely, Abraham Raji On 2021, ഫെബ്രുവരി 23 12:45:16 AM IST, "Lucas Marçal Coutinho" wrote: >Hi guys all right? >Some time ago I saw that they changed the homepage of the site a little, >but only a few days ago I saw the blog post saying that they were open to >receive help. >I don't know much, but I took advantage of my last days of vacation before >returning to classes to try to give you some ideas. >Even if you already have ideas, I hope you like it! >Hugs! > >Debian Project Website Reimagined ><https://github.com/lucasmc64/debian-website-reimagined>
3 things I'd change about debian.org
Hey Everyone, My name is Abraham Raji. I contribute to the Debian project by helping the Debian JS, Ruby and Go teams to maintain software I'm familiar with the age old wise saying, "If it ain't broke don't fix it." and most of you will argue that it's not broken. I agree with you.. for the most part. Here's what I love about debian.org: - The website is completely usable from a terminal. - How accessible it is. - The team's commitment to adhering to standards. - The simplicity of it all. - The general lack of JavaScript. Here's my wish-list for debian.org: - Better UI. No I'm not talking about those modern monstrosities that you may have come across in your day to day lives but something along the lines of https://thebestmotherfucking.website (https://thebestmotherfucking.website/) and if we're feeling particularly pretty even something like https://thebestmotherfuckingwebsite.co (https://thebestmotherfuckingwebsite.co/) . - Better navigation. Suppose I wish to package a ruby library for Debian and like a sane person I start looking from debian.org and start looking for resources. I need to go through 4 separate pages before I reach the Ruby Team page on Debian Wiki. This is assuming I know how Debian works and is not an absolute newbie. Even if I reach the Team page there's no real way to intuitively navigate through the various pages maintained by the Ruby Team except of course for the literal paragraph of links at the bottom of the Ruby Team page. This is not good. - Modern Technology to power the website. This is something that makes sense to me and I'm not going to push for this as much as I would for the top two. Perl is good... but it isn't great. Modern day web frameworks aren't exactly perfect and some of them are indeed pure trash but some of them aren't really that bad either. We would probably need new volunteers if we switch to a different technology but I would argue that it is way more easier to find people working with python or ruby or PHP in comparison to those working with Perl these days and it's only going to get tougher to find people for Perl as time goes by. That's it. Just these three things. If not today we'd have to address these issues someday and then you'd wish that you had started working on it earlier. I'm not aware of any on-going effort to address these issues but if there's something like that going on great! I'd love to be a part of that effort. I hope I haven't offended anyone here but if I have I would like to say that, that was never my intention. I am willing to work with everyone here for as long as it takes to address these issues with the website. I may be wrong about a lot of things here, please let me know what they are. I would love to hear your thoughts regarding everything I've said in this mail. ---- - Abraham Raji Mea navis aëricumbens anguillis abundat. abrahamraji.in
