Laura, I'd be happy to adopt the merchandise page. I've been looking for an easy way to start volunteering.
- Ryan On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 09:53:43PM +0100, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > Dear all > As part of the recent web team sprint [1] (report will come in the > following days hopefully), we have reviewed several areas of the website > that were in need of maintenance. > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/2019/DebianWebTeam > > For the /english/misc/merchandise page [2], we need maintainer(s) to > keep up-to-date the database of merchandise, process new requests, and > care about the bugs related to the list of Debian merchandise, if any. > > [2] https://www.debian.org/misc/merchandise > > This is a call for help, or request for "adoption": would anybody > volunteer to this task? > > In the /english/misc folder of our repo [3] you can find the > books-related files. > > [3] > https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/blob/master/english/misc/ > > Maintaining the merchandise page can be a nice entry point for > somebody to get involved in the Debian web team. Technically speaking, > it's an easy job, but the "curation" task that a human provides is very > appreciated by our users. On the contrary, an outdated or unmaintained > list of providers looses its value very quickly. > > If somebody is interested in adoption, they won't be alone (at least at > the beginning). I've included my address in the alias eve...@debian.org > to work together with them until they find a suitable workflow and they > feel comfortable doing the task themselves. We'll also document > everything for others to jump in too. > > If nobody steps ahead at the end of the year, we'll move the current > (English) content to https://wiki.debian.org/Merchandise, removing the > page (English and translations) from www.debian.org. > > If you are interested, reply to this message in the public mailing list > (debian-www@lists.debian.org) or privately to eve...@debian.org and I'll > point to detailed steps to start. You can also join #debian-www IRC > channel (in irc.debian.org). > > Kind regards, > -- > Laura Arjona Reina > https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona >
