During a conversation about possible improvements to DWN, Joey Schulze suggested getting the old package of the week (POW) idea going again. [1] The plan is each week we'd review one featured package on debian.org (probably somewhere under News/), with a link in the DWN issue. I've agreed to do a few reviews, as has Matt Black.
[1] Previous discussion about the POW idea: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200204/msg01803.html We're looking for some advice on web strategy. The first question is about including images (screenshots) in the reviews. I think we should be okay if we strictly enforce (perhaps using WML code) a few rules: 1) No more than 100K total of images per review. 2) Any images inlined should be <10K thumbnail linked to fullsize. 3) ALT/TITLE tags should convey the size/format of fullsize. 4) The necessary magic is used to store images in CVS. I've got two samples of how I think it might work at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~andrel/pow/ Is this a sane policy? Are images a problem? What about sound clips? These would only rarely be appropriate, say for something like the festival speech synthesizer. I'm also going to need some help with WML code for headers/footers, and to provide a link to the Debian package page, since that URL might change in the future. Probably also table of contents. If Joey wants, we might even try to automatically link it into DWN. My WML scripting attempts so far haven't worked. Anybody willing to help out? Any feedback on the samples is also very welcome. I'm not sure I've yet hit on the right format for things. Not the header/footer issues, but rather things like what to say about the package, how much to say, what screenshots to include, which links are needed, etc. (Of course other reviewers will do things their own way, and that's fine.) Thanks for any comments, --Andre __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
