Re: Installation Instructions link

2001-12-11 Thread Chris Tillman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:09:12PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > What is the proper mailing list for this be discussed? This discussion > should be moved there. debian-www is not appropriate? > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:45:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > There is a link from the front pag

Re: Installation Instructions link

2001-12-11 Thread James A. Treacy
What is the proper mailing list for this be discussed? This discussion should be moved there. On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:45:46PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > There is a link from the front page to Installation Instructions, > which takes you to a link below the fold on the Installation page. I >

Re: rebuild web site after each commit

2001-12-11 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:36:33PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: > Howdy, > > Would it be possible to add a hook so that the web site is rebuilt > after each commit, or would this overload klecker? > Isn't every 6 hours good enough for you? Even the security folks said that would be good enough for th

Re: [oferk@oren.co.il: debian]

2001-12-11 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:49:31PM +0100, Richard Atterer wrote: > > To make it easier for CD vendors to provide a high quality > disk we provide Official CD images for them. > > simply because he's not a vendor. (Even /I/ only followed it after > searching elsewhere for a long time when

Installation Instructions link

2001-12-11 Thread Chris Tillman
There is a link from the front page to Installation Instructions, which takes you to a link below the fold on the Installation page. I think it would be better to take you to the top of that page, because then you can see the list of architectures and check out the Ports link for your arch before p

rebuild web site after each commit

2001-12-11 Thread Matt Kraai
Howdy, Would it be possible to add a hook so that the web site is rebuilt after each commit, or would this overload klecker? Matt

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-12-11 Thread Jeff Albro
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Craig Small wrote: > As Joy said, we're volunteers. It just took me a little while to get used to the "rhythm of work" here. > I also had a very quick scan of your > suggestions and saw it didn't comment on "my pages" (that's ok though) > so didn't reply. If you tell me wha

Re: releases/woody/errata.wml

2001-12-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 09:28:56PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > I noticed two things while translating that file that bug me: Wr/t the > potato file the lines about the security sources.list entry were > dropped. What's the purpose for that? I rather think that must have been > a mistake, I can'

Re: [oferk@oren.co.il: debian]

2001-12-11 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:49:50PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > A user who didn't like the cdimage.d.o. > Maybe he should instead try to download the iso of next incoming RH 8... I do not think it is so easy as he said :) Downloading RH 7.2 image is as easy as potato one IMHO. -- France

Re: [oferk@oren.co.il: debian]

2001-12-11 Thread Richard Atterer
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:49:50PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > A user who didn't like the cdimage.d.o. [snip] Too true! I hope the forthcoming cdimage website will solve at least part of the problem. However, IMHO there's still a problem with the link to cdimage on

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-12-11 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:30:56PM -0500, Jeff wrote: > > My first post on this subject didn't get any responses. Is that because > people aren't interested or don't think it's a good idea? As Joy said, we're volunteers. I also had a very quick scan of your suggestions and saw it didn't comment

Bug#123513: Vendors don't sell Debian CDs

2001-12-11 Thread Aaron Isotton
Package: www.debian.org Version: 2001-12-11 On the page http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors#it there are at least the follwing two vendors which do not sell Debian (anymore?): Vendor: A.Linux Facile URL: http://www.linuxfacile.org/ Vendor: Piegare URL: http://www.piegare.bbk.org/ Vendor: C

releases/woody/errata.wml

2001-12-11 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! I noticed two things while translating that file that bug me: Wr/t the potato file the lines about the security sources.list entry were dropped. What's the purpose for that? I rather think that must have been a mistake, I can't think of any reason why to leave them out Second, t

[oferk@oren.co.il: debian]

2001-12-11 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, A user who didn't like the cdimage.d.o. - Forwarded message from Offer Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Delivery-date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:42:13 +0100 X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Offer Kaye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Baruch Even" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Subject: debian Date

Re: debian

2001-12-11 Thread Jeff Albro
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Offer Kaye wrote: > Hi, > I tried looking in debian.org for the "testing" version to download- I > looked for over an hour before giving up- then I got smart, went to the Well, as testing is not officially released, I'm not sure that it needs to be easy to find. On the other

Re: Moving euro to the front page?

2001-12-11 Thread James A. Treacy
Let me repeat myself and what a few others have said: This is newsworthy, since many (European) people will be interested in it. Thus, it warrants a news item and the corresponding place it would then receive on the front page (until enough other items are generated that it is no longer displayed)

Re: How to install a mirror?

2001-12-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:05:19AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > My name is Mauricio Tellez, from Mexico. I'm a student of the > > University of Veracruz, and here we want to become a debian mirror. My > > question is: what are the steps that I have to follow to become an > > "official" deb

Re: debian

2001-12-11 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
> Sigh... i'm starting to understand why people say the installation of Debian > is difficult- if this is what I had to go through just to find the > installation files, what will I go through actually installing the OS? > The iso for stable version can be found at www.linuxiso.org That program

Re: Moving euro to the front page?

2001-12-11 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 08:34:24PM -0800, Tor Slettnes wrote: > > "Javier" == Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > First off, the Euro sign is a detail as far as using Debian goes, even > for European users. It can probably be compared with generating > characters l

debian

2001-12-11 Thread Offer Kaye
Hi, I tried looking in debian.org for the "testing" version to download- I looked for over an hour before giving up- then I got smart, went to the RedHat site, and within 1 minute and ~5 mouse clicks I got to the explanation of what to download and to the download files themselves. After that I und