On 12/16/12 13:53, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: >> 1. Even MediaWiki (wiki.gentoo.org) looks better than www.gentoo.org. >> That's impressive-bad. >> >> People still think of Gentoo as a ricer distro that's broken all >> the time, when in reality, it's one of the most stable. No one >> would suspect that anything has changed, though, since the >> homepage hasn't since before I could drink beer. >> >> It makes the entire distro look unmaintained. > > Yeah. Stable. Hehe... > > The problem with the entire webpage is that is coded in an extremely obscure > way. It is probably easier to 100% replace it from scratch than to modify and > improve it. Yes, I've tried to analyze once how e.g. the table of blog posts > or the GLSA announcements on the main page come together. > > My personal suggestion would be to code an internal replacement and > transparently port more and more pages to it (as a change mostly invisible > from outside, with two content management systems running concurrently for a > transition period). Once the transition is complete, improvements can be made > in a more sweeping way. > > How to do this, however, and what software to target should probably be > decided by people who know more than me... and in the end it all boils down > to > "who has the time and motivation". >
This sounds reasonable, but it's a huge project either way. No one is ever going to have the time or motivation, thus the suggestion to do a bug bounty for it.
