Re: More about 'releases'
James A. Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You are speaking specifically of the releases pages. That involves only the boot floppies people. I was being more general. There are docs, such as the FAQ, which we have on the web. We receive complaints about the docs and sending them to debian-doc never gets a response(*). We need a better method of communicating with the other groups that create content for the web pages. One solution would be if we had access to the source so we could simply fix problems ourselves. (*)Someone on the doc mailing list may claim they haven't seen any reports of bad links in the last year. That's simply because I stopped sending them. FYI, I sent a proposal a *long* time ago about better integration between the DDP and the debian Web pages. I can track this down if someone wants a copy, or resend. I am the current DDP leader but as I'm also the boot-floppies leader, I shan't really have time to get stuff done until after potato release -- Joey Hess will be taking over as boot-floppies leader at that point. Regarding maint of the release/... area, I do not mind at all if folks make corrections and such. The install manual and release notes, however, should not be correct in place as the source for those are not the Debian Web CVS area but rather the boot-floppies CVS area, so if you wanna work on that stuff, work out of the boot-floppies CVS. Hope this clarifies -- sorry for the non-responsiveness. -- .Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]URL:http://www.onShore.com/
Re: More about 'releases'
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:24:36PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: By the way: shouldn't the index.wml in releases be changed now that potato is frozen? If the 'active' generation of text about frozen does not work, why not change it into static content? After all, releases don't happen that often... I believe he files under releases/ are maintained by the boot floppies group. We really need to coordinate better with them and the doc group. Is someone willing to join either (or both) groups and see how we can better coordinate? What needs to be done, actually? If these pages are to be generated from webpages WMLs, someone needs to: * disable building on the boot-floppies side, and remove those files, * transfer any missing data from SGML (?) to the WMLs. AFAICT, that is. Since this involves debian-boot people, I'm CC:ing their list. I don't see how is this an issue for the documentation group/list, it's only remotely connected to the debian-history document. :) -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name
Re: More about 'releases'
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:19:24PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: What needs to be done, actually? If these pages are to be generated from webpages WMLs, someone needs to: You are speaking specifically of the releases pages. That involves only the boot floppies people. I was being more general. There are docs, such as the FAQ, which we have on the web. We receive complaints about the docs and sending them to debian-doc never gets a response(*). We need a better method of communicating with the other groups that create content for the web pages. One solution would be if we had access to the source so we could simply fix problems ourselves. (*)Someone on the doc mailing list may claim they haven't seen any reports of bad links in the last year. That's simply because I stopped sending them. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More about 'releases'
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 09:00:35PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: By the way: shouldn't the index.wml in releases be changed now that potato is frozen? If the 'active' generation of text about frozen does not work, why not change it into static content? After all, releases don't happen that often... I can make the changes for you, if you like. I believe he files under releases/ are maintained by the boot floppies group. We really need to coordinate better with them and the doc group. Is someone willing to join either (or both) groups and see how we can better coordinate? -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
boot-floppies - www coordination [was: Re: More about 'releases']
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:24:36PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 09:00:35PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: By the way: shouldn't the index.wml in releases be changed now that potato is frozen? If the 'active' generation of text about frozen does not work, why not change it into static content? After all, releases don't happen that often... I can make the changes for you, if you like. I believe he files under releases/ are maintained by the boot floppies group. We really need to coordinate better with them and the doc group. Is someone willing to join either (or both) groups and see how we can better coordinate? Actually I'm already on both groups :-) I'm not a Debian developer, just a translator, but if that wouldn't be an obstacle, I could try to do this. I'll ask on debian-boot if someone really wishes to do the work, but I guess they have enough problems developing the floppies, and I think I have enough knowledge to do the work. Marcin -- - Marcin Owsiany [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
