On 10-Aug-98 James A. Treacy wrote: > Here is a list of things that are on the TODO list for the web pages. > Items that need some programming have a p at the beginning and those > that are ongoing commitments have a c. Don't be put off by the length. > Most of these are one shot deals. > > Feel free to volunteer for any of them. Volunteer I shall!
> A few other people should recieve mail to webmaster. Maybe it should > simply be forwarded to debian-www. I'm online AND active 12+ hours a day weekdays and 8+ on weekend. I could and would field webmaster email if you like. > p The news page needs to be rewritten so that each piece of news is in it's > own file (under directories by year). This will allow translations of > individual news items, like announcements of new releases, without > requiring > all items to be translated. It would probably save time in the long run > if the index was automatically generated from the files. Are you talking about the page at www.debian.org/news? I've gotten the wml sources and I'll start on this one as a real project. > The vendors page needs to be have the entries organized by country with > links > at the top into each countries listing. Easy. And this one too, infact, it should be done by the time anyone wants to respond to this. > c A URL checker needs to be run on the site once a week or so. This > recursively goes > through the site checking for broken links. Doing this is one of the best > ways > to avoid complaints. Hmm.. does c mean somebody else is committed to do this? There are I quite a few web sites I monitor (technically) for customers... this is part of the job and it would be nothing for me to add debian sites to the collection I already do. Darren P.S. I am already a debian developer for a few small packages ---------------------------------- http://benham.net/index.html -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d+(-) s:+ a29 C++$ UL++>++++ P+++$ L++>++++ E? W+++$ N+(-) o? K- w+++$(--) O M-- V- PS-- PE++ Y++ PGP++ t+ 5 X R+ !tv b++++ DI+++ D++ G++>G+++ e h+ r* y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ----------------------------------
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