Usability review of debian.org?

I'm an engineer with a Linux background who is working on starting a career in usability and human factors. I was wondering if people thought it would be useful for me to take a close look at Debian's web site and make some recommendations. -Jeff

Bug#117032: marked as done (www.debian.org: Last wml build of www.debian.org/doc/admin-manual not successful)

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Processed: patch

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Bug#117050: What do we do?

Hi, So how do we get the favicon.ico back in shape? -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.

Bug#114214: marked as done (The proposed java policy have now moved.)

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Bug#76003: DMUP lacking guidelines section

You wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Version: 2000-11-01 > Severity: normal > > The DMUP (at http://www.debian.org/devel/dmup) says that > > "This document contains two parts: policies and guidelines." > > There is no guidelines section. Well, maybe it's a bit poorly worded, but there are polici

Bug#109068: marked as done (DDP document is shown in the wrong language)

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Bug#113683: marked as done (Stormix and Rebel.com links on Partners page)

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Bug#82852: marked as done (DWN index for each year needs to depend on all the issues for that year)

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Bug#31137: marked as done (pgp-signed messages don't show up correctly)

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Bug#112544: marked as done (Search: selecting nothing on Date Filter fails)

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Processed: it's wishlist

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Processed: retitle

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Bug#62815: Should the gnomehack list be archived?

Hi, There is a request in the bug tracking system to archive the gnomehack mailing list at http://lists.debian.org/ , but the reasoning is pretty weak. Should this really be done? -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.

Bug#62815: marked as done (listarchives: does not list gnomehack list)

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Processed: that's really wishlist, the list isn't archived here

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Bug#113252: marked as done (At the bottom of the page it says "You can also *search* the archives"...)

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new patent for you

Dear Sirs, We would like to offer you the following patented solutions that might interest you. 1)METHOD FOR RENTING SOFTWARE PRODUCTS AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DATA (AUDIO, VIDEO, ETC.) Priority date - 16.03.2001. This method allows a user to use software products and electronic data i

I love chatty virus scanners

We get one SirCam email, my postfix server detects it, drops it, no problem. The we get 2 million emails saying that we (not the sender) have a virus. Might as well get the bloody virus. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting

We are Now Able to Reach your Web Page

Title: We are Now Able to Reach your Web Page We are please to inform you that we no longer have a problem in reaching your Web page from the Philadelphia area:

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by alfie: webwml/german/doc ddp.wml

* Kaare Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-11-06 15:43]: > On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 06:36:14 -0800, Debian WWW CVS wrote: > >> german/doc : ddp.wml > [...] >> Fixed also the package location of the Debian-Java-FAQ >> (can't seem to find that fix in the english file?!??) > > Look fo

Você está PAGANDO PELO AR

Title: Você sabe o quanto pode estar gastando Você sabe o quanto pode estar gastando pagando pelo AR na Conta de Água? Eliminador de Ar para Hidrômetro - Casos comprovados de quase 40% de Economia Economia média de 17,7%, segundo estudo da Escola Federal de Engenharia de It

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by alfie: webwml/german/doc ddp.wml

On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 06:36:14 -0800, Debian WWW CVS wrote: > german/doc : ddp.wml [...] > Fixed also the package location of the Debian-Java-FAQ > (can't seem to find that fix in the english file?!??) Look for "inpackage" in user-manuals.wml, it's not in ddp,wml. -- Reg

Re: [tkubota@riken.go.jp: "On Mention in a Book" (?$B=q@R7G:\$K?(B?$B$D$$$F?(B)]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 02:39:02AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 02:22:46PM -1000, Brian Russo wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2001/debian-www-200109/msg00254.html > ~~ ~~ > > This is from a Japanese publishing compa