On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Leonard Ehrenfried <[email protected]> wrote: > Before I get ahead of myself in terms of planning I would like to gauge the > community's feelings towards an undertaking like this.
For what it's worth, I am very much in favor of this. I am really glad to see this and the logo[1] getting some discussion. Branding and image are important, even for open source projects, because humans have limited time to evaluate every possibility in the world, so they often take shortcuts by making inferences from limited superficial information. And that's just a fact made necessary by the finiteness of time. And the value of paying some attention to "marketing" can have a disproportionately positive impact on the health of the project. New users benefit existing Vim users indirectly. Git did this about a year ago. Vim could do it and hopefully get a ton of mileage out of it. I certainly don't suggest having these discussions more than once per decade :) >From my armchair position, I would also like to suggest that whatever technology or resources are used to update the website should be very low-maintenance and perhaps unsexy. Throw up some bootstrap template and it's going to be out of style in 6 months. I agree kernel.org is the right direction, although perhaps a tad austere. CGI for the backend is probably not a good idea, but I would also be wary of kitchen sinks like rails and django. If the website renders ok in w3m you will likely earn some extra good will :) I think it's good to outsource things like source hosting to services like github. Maybe vim.org shouldn't be concerned with that hosting burden. I would even suggest punting on the idea of user logins. vim.org should primarily provide: - the user manual (why does vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/ dominate search results for vim docs?) - an aggregator for plugins from all kinds of sources (github, bitbucket, sourceforge, vim_use threads, stackoverflow That's my three pennies. [1] I don't favor the new logo proposed in the other thread, but at least the notion has been raised. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
