Package: www.debian.org User: www.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertag: scripts Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian...@lists.debian.org,n...@debian.org
Hi Debian web team, Debian QA team and FrontDesk, in https://www.debian.org/devel/people we have a huge list that was dynamically generated once a day, gathering the Packages and Sources files from a Debian Archive mirror and then processing them to retrieve the maintainers data (wether individuals or teams) together with the list of packages they maintain. In the web team sprint in 2019 we talked about this page and agreed that this kind of list makes not much sense in www.debian.org nowadays. As part of this work towards a simpler website, the scripts gathering the data and creating the list were removed from the "cron" repo: https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/cron/-/commit/87d13915be4958ad868ffd98bf3758b0c37726ab But unfortunately, the new pages we wanted (a mention about the "people" in the home page, a "community" folder that probably would explain the different ways to participate in the Debian Project and link to nm.debian.org and contributors.debian.org for lists of people) are not done yet. So currently we show an old list (since we don't update anymore the file people.names present in www-master) :/ I was planning to edit people.wml to remove the list and just point to contributors.debian.org and nm.debian.org, but then I've read this note in the people.wml file: ## This page is redirected to by qa.d.o/developer.php?all=1 I have no idea if the page is linked in other places and/or the info is valuable for the QA team or others. My proposal is: 1.- To update our people.wml page removing the current list, and link to nm.debian.org for a list of Debian members and contributors.debian.org for other kind of contributions (explaining that probably there are people participating in Debian who is not listed in any of those pages). 2.- if any of the QA team or the maintainers of nm.d.o/contributors.d.o considers valuable this kind of list, I can help them to retrieve the corresponding cron scripts if they want to host them and produce the list in the corresponding [qa|nm|contributors].debian.org server. Then we would add a link there from our "people" page, too. 3.- If you think the info does not belong to your "areas" and know a better place, just tell. Please send your comments to the bug report and we'll act in the following days accordingly. Thanks! -- Laura Arjona Reina https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona
