On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:16:28PM +0100, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
> I sent the mail to the debain guy, because I noticed that
> the LyX problem was "holding back" Debian 1.3, because they
> judged it to be a "critical" bug. (Politics...)
Politics is right. Did any of them ever try to contact us to clear up the
bug?
> I wanted to fix the web pages on la1ad today for the 1.0
> release, but unfortunately, I can't telnet into the box
> anymore! I don't know what happened (Lgb?), but the fact
> is that I do not have a snapshot to work from, and thus
> I haven't managed to do any work.
>
> What is worse: I don't have time to do a complete
> overhaul of the web pages as intended before the 1st
> of February...
If there are large blocks of text (i.e., simple HTML) that need to be
written, I'm sure there will be a few fluent English writers happy to take
on the task, and then you would only have to debug the text, not write it
all.
If I sound like I keep saying the same thing over and over again, then it's
only because that's what I'm doing. But I'm doing it because web sites are
important nowadays. lyx.org (and maybe even devel.lyx.org) will get a huge
number of hits the day the press releases arrive (maybe even if we don't get
on slashdot :) and web users are notoriously fickle. If the website doesn't
look good and up to date, people won't ever download lyx to try it.
Speaking of hits, did we ever get the web site mirrored by whoever was
going to mirror it? Or can via take a bunch of hits?
-Amir
