On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:21:29AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:25:08AM +0300, Andrei Popescu a écrit : > > the people complaining about wml did not mention what > > the issues were and did not propose an alternative. > > What I learn in Debian I use elsewhere, and what I learn elsewhere I use > in Debian. There are exceptions such as WML, which seems to be a dead end. > > I think that there could be more people working on our website if it were > using > some system that is used by Debian contributors for their own sites or at > their > workplace. At least for me, I am not interested to study WML, so my > contributions are limited to modify or delete pages in my area of interest, > but > I am not making new developments.
Come-on, the simple wml pages are just html files, and a generic makefile that often doesn't need any change. It's sure it may scare some people because it sounds 90's compared to wiki, put allow arbitrary perl or whatever scripting inside. > I notice that for the part of the website I am intersted in, there is almost > no > development at all, and that much more content is added to wiki.debian.org. > Still, I like the idea to have on www.debian.org informations for the general > public and users, and on wiki.debian.org some contents more volatile and in > construction. > > I am exploring how possible it would be to use the markdown syntax through > ikiwiki to reproduce the pages under /devel/debian-med. It looks quite > promising. > > Do you or somebody else know what are the areas of our website that crucially > depend on specialised functions or scripts of WML, and if these pages are > still maintained ? Someone like Rhonda or me or previous webmasters ? Yes WML is really used (from the easy use, variable substitution for releases names, version, release date, to conditional use,etc.), see english/template/debian for example: http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/webwml/english/template/debian/?sortby=log -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100805224539.gh18...@dedibox.ebzao.info
