Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-06-07 Thread Oleg Verych
* From: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 20:15:08 -0400 > > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:00:17PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: >> On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:53:30PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: >> > The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is that >> > it

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-31 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 01 Jun 2007, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > > So consider this a +1 for me to get write access to all DD by default in > > our website. > > for the content I'm pretty sure that's a good idea. Giving all DDs > access to the css could result in a new design every week. Although that > sounds like

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> So consider this a +1 for me to get write access to all DD by default in > our website. for the content I'm pretty sure that's a good idea. Giving all DDs access to the css could result in a new design every week. Although that sounds like an interesting thing to watch ;) -- Bernd Zeimetz <[E

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 03:15:31AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > If I already have access and I get an itch, I will scratch it. If I > > > don't, I will either forget about it or complain. I am unlikely to go > > > through whatever bureaucracy is set up to request access. Whether or > > > n

Re: cvs commit access to webwml files (Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams)

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:29:01AM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > But I did the effort of finding the procedure and asking for cvs commit > access to the webwml files. To my surprise I got the access granted > within 24 hours. Truth be told, you were reasonably lucky to get Matt's ACK and Joey's ad

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:15:08PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > > The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is that > > > it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. > > > > Where did you hear this? > > Word of mouth, usually in conjunction with promises t

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 11:44:13AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:45:17PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > > > Anyway, before we get lost in all this prediction stuff, I'm yet to hear > > > a good reason why we need complete triviality in the access method, as > > > opposed to th

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:06:06AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Because most people don't bother when they want to fix only a small > detail in a web page. Well, when I want to fix a small detail in some other part of Debian, I usually send a mail or file a bug, I don't automatically think tha

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:45:17PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > > Anyway, before we get lost in all this prediction stuff, I'm yet to hear > > a good reason why we need complete triviality in the access method, as > > opposed to the kind of triviality we have had for years now: all that is > > neces

cvs commit access to webwml files (Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams)

2007-05-30 Thread Bart Martens
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 09:06 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Anyway, before we get lost in all this prediction stuff, I'm yet to hear > > a good reason why we need complete triviality in the access method, as > > opposed to the kind of triviality we have h

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Josip Rodin wrote: > Anyway, before we get lost in all this prediction stuff, I'm yet to hear > a good reason why we need complete triviality in the access method, as > opposed to the kind of triviality we have had for years now: all that is > necessary to get webwml access is

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread David Nusinow
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:00:17PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:53:30PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > > The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is that > > it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. > > Where did you hear this? Wo

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 01:02:12AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Anyway, before we get lost in all this prediction stuff, I'm yet to hear > a good reason why we need complete triviality in the access method, as > opposed to the kind of triviality we have had for years now: all that is > necessary to

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:37:45PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > > It's not unfair to say that web editing is by and large much a easier thing > > compared to coding the C library. Consequently, the number of people who > > know how to do it, as well as the people who *think* they know how to do it,

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:30:23PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > It's not unfair to say that web editing is by and large much a easier thing > compared to coding the C library. Consequently, the number of people who > know how to do it, as well as the people who *think* they know how to do it, > is m

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 20:01, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > What was unfair wasn't to say debian-www has issues, it was to put it > on the same level than DSA, and for that I appology to the member of > the www team Thx. pgpdel5FCQMRF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:10:09PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > > How were things working in the debian-glibc CVS? Did accidents or hot > > discussions hapen because of the very opened commit access? > > No more so than happens today with the more closed SVN repo. But it's not necessarily an indic

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 07:54:34PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > and the debian-www team is recovering from the > > > > shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and that CSS2 is almost > > > > stable (err wait, I wasn't r

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:53:30PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: > The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is that > it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. Where did you hear this? How does all that documentation we have had for years at http://www.debia

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > and the debian-www team is recovering from the > > > shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and that CSS2 is almost > > > stable (err wait, I wasn't reading my calendar properly, we're in 2007 > > > not 1997, sorry). >

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-28 Thread Frank Küster
"Francesco P. Lovergine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:56:12AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> >> Yes, you simply submit a bug report with a patch, and wait for a couple >> of year for it to be applied. >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=www

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-28 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:56:12AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > Yes, you simply submit a bug report with a patch, and wait for a couple > of year for it to be applied. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=pkg&data=www.debian.org&archive=no&version=&dist=unstable&include=patch

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-28 Thread Frank Küster
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007 01:53, David Nusinow wrote: >> The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is >> that it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. > > Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but >

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 04:00:10PM +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 13:31 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > > What you're saying here appears to be that you find Frans' response > > unhelpful and unconstructive. > I didn't read it that way. I think that Pierre meant to say that > so

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 08:13:37AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > How were things working in the debian-glibc CVS? Did accidents or hot > discussions hapen because of the very opened commit access? No more so than happens today with the more closed SVN repo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Luis Matos
maybe you can use the debianart.org platform. Dom, 2007-05-27 às 09:30 -0400, Kevin Mark escreveu: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > >Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but > > >contributing

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 13:31 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > > and the debian-www team is recovering from th

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > > >Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but > >contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that > >for a webdesign professional even a redesign wo

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-27 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:58:54PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > and the debian-www team is recovering from the > > > shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and tha

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > > > > >Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but > > >contributing to specific pages or parts is trivia

Re: Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 11:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > > >Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but > >contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that > >for a webdesign profession

Web design [Was: Wanted: introductory page for all teams]

2007-05-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 27 May 2007, Frans Pop wrote: Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but contributing to specific pages or parts is trivial. OTOH, I expect that for a webdesign professional even a redesign would be quite manageable as AFAICT the technical structure of the website i

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 02:13:47AM +0200, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 27 May 2007 01:53, David Nusinow wrote: > > The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is > > that it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. > > Yes, a complete redesig

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Christian Perrier
> So make the www repo writable by group Debian just like debian-glibc CVS > used to be. That sounds to be a fair suggestion. I suppose that changes are posted somewhere (debian-www?) so "accidents" should be easy to avoid/revert. What would be the risks? A commit/revert war like the one we rec

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Clint Adams
> The wiki is completely centered on English and therefore fails to serve a > significant portion of our users. Sure, parts of the wiki are translated, > but maintenance of that is an orders of magnitude worse problem than it > is for the website. > > As far as I'm concerned the wiki is not a v

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 27 May 2007 01:53, David Nusinow wrote: > The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is > that it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. Yes, a complete redesign of the website is a herculean task, but contributing to specific pages or parts is tri

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:11:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > What you fail to see is that there is not really such a thing as the www > team. Basically there are a bunch of people with commit access who all > mostly just care about a particular part of the website. > For some this is the technica

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 06:22:08PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:11:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > However, I do feel my comment is justified in the sense that if there is > > one thing in Debian that is the joint responsibility of _all_ DDs, then > > it is the website.

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Clint Adams
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:11:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > However, I do feel my comment is justified in the sense that if there is > one thing in Debian that is the joint responsibility of _all_ DDs, then > it is the website. So yes, if you've never contributed in any way to the > website, fe

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:11:03AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > However, I do feel my comment is justified in the sense that if there is > one thing in Debian that is the joint responsibility of _all_ DDs, then > it is the website. So yes, if you've never contributed in any way to the > website, f

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:58, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > So well, sorry, but I don't see why I should be part of every > mis-functioning team in Debian to have the right to say they do a poor > job. Constructive criticism is welcome; ridiculing only shows a bad attitude by the person who does it

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:20:53PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > and the debian-www team is recovering from the > > shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and that CSS2 is almost > > stable (err wait, I wasn't reading my calendar proper

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 26 May 2007 23:07, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > and the debian-www team is recovering from the > shock that HTML 4.01 has been released recently and that CSS2 is almost > stable (err wait, I wasn't reading my calendar properly, we're in 2007 > not 1997, sorry). Why don't you join the team?

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:54:06PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 26 May 2007, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070526 21:52]: > > > In order to try to address that I started a wiki page whose goal is to be > > > a > > > good introductory page to all teams.

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 26 May 2007, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070526 21:52]: > > In order to try to address that I started a wiki page whose goal is to be a > > good introductory page to all teams. Anyone who wants to learn more about > > some teams should be able to consult th

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:13:51PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070526 21:52]: > > In order to try to address that I started a wiki page whose goal is to be a > > good introductory page to all teams. Anyone who wants to learn more about > > some teams should

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070526 21:52]: > In order to try to address that I started a wiki page whose goal is to be a > good introductory page to all teams. Anyone who wants to learn more about > some teams should be able to consult the page and have an idea of what > he/she could do