Bug#339837: Apparent author looks MIA

2006-04-09 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 12:10:12PM -0400, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > After seeing this bug stalling for monthes, I have looked at www.d.o's > CVS and tracked these statements back to the initial revision of > webwml/english/security/index.wml, committed in 1998 by James A. Treacy

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by srivasta: webwml/english/devel constitution.wml constitu ...

2003-11-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:09:13PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 06:06:14PM -0700, Debian WWW CVS wrote: > > CVSROOT:/cvs/webwml > > Module name:webwml > > Changes by: srivasta03/10/30 18:06:14 > > > > Modified files: > > english/devel : constitution.

Bug#214783: Typos on http://www.debian.org/events/keysigning

2003-10-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:39:13PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Matt Kraai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-08 10:44]: > > On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 07:09:08PM +0200, Martin Jansen wrote: > >> - Once you make sure everything went fine, you can send the signed key > >> to > >> + Once you have made su

Bug#176437: www.debian.org: URL checker not checking

2003-01-12 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:13:16AM -0800, Larry Gilbert wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Version: N/A; reported 2003-01-12 > Severity: normal > > Within the Web site development pages, there are a couple of references > to this directory: > > http://www-master.debian.org/~treacy/urlcheck/ That

Re: free in free beer? (News/2003/20030102.wml)

2003-01-05 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 10:31:58AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > > > The Test Drive Program is a free service of HP. > > I think that the "free" here is "free beer", not "free speech". > Correct. > Debian always says "Debian is free software, in free speech > meaning, not free beer meaning" a

Re: Sorry, add wrong directory

2002-12-17 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:58:31AM +0800, Rex Tsai wrote: > > I'm very sorry that maked a mistake, I added a wrong directory at > webwml/chinese/News/weekly/49 . Can we remove it ? > (except cvs update -P) > Removed. Note that people that have already added the dir due to a cvs update should re

OT: birth announcement

2002-12-05 Thread James A. Treacy
(For those of you on this mailing list that still remember who I am) I would like to announce the birth of my two daughters, Jacqueline (7lb) and Claire (6lb 8oz), born on November 28. Needless to say, this has completely devoured all my free time (that includes sleeping). People tell me I should

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by joy: cron ./.cvsignore ./README ./common.sh ./lesso ...

2002-11-22 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 05:18:25PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > On related note, it just so happens that Ryan (one of the admins) has > mentioned to me yesterday that we might want to create a dedicated user that > would rebuild the web pages and deliver email to webmaster and such things. > This

Re: Debian current weekly news should use indirect link

2002-11-21 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:46:15PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:15:00AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > The unchanging "current" URL is essential for us to use wwwoffle's > > monitor feature to fetch at regular intervals, but a level of > > indirection should be introduced

Re: broken link

2002-11-07 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:52:24PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 06:16:58AM -0500, Rob Bultman wrote: > > The link to: > > /pool/updates/main/h/heimdal/libkrb5-17-heimdal_0.4e-7.woody.4_i386.deb > > > > found in page: > > http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-183 > > > >

Re: many dead links on the Debian books page!!!

2002-11-07 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:29:57PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Roland Riegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-07 10:22]: > > no further comment. Please correct that. > > thanks > > Well, thank you for your nice message. Which links do you refer to? > Our linkcheck just reports the following fi

Re: Congratulations on most confusing and worst website of any distro ....

2002-11-05 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:11:11PM -0600, Pharris, Chuck wrote: > I'm patient enough to use Linux, but after five minutes and not finding how > to simply download a copy to load.. > > Jigdo or whatevertoo confusing (e.g. took more than 3 clicks and 2 > minutes to figure out)... > > Other

Re: New deb mother tongue (CN problem)

2002-10-03 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:58:18PM -0700, Robin Rowe wrote: > > I've set IE to only {en-ca}, but I still get en returned. Setting it to > {en-ca,fr} should, I think, return fr -- which it does. The > mod_negotiation.c code does a ranking to determine a best match and fr is an > exact match even if

Re: broken link

2002-09-24 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:35:48PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > On http://www.debian.org/mirror, > > http://pepole.debian.org/~treacy/archive_mirror_check.out It is being recreated as I write this. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Internationalization

2002-09-17 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Mario Mommer wrote: > Hi, > > Internationalization is a very nice feature and I'm sure many users are > greatly relieved to have the debian pages in their own language. > > OTOH, it is fairly anoying to have to change the language on each page > if you

Re: xlibs depend

2002-09-14 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:05:54PM +0200, brice wrote: > in http://packages.debian.org/stable/libs/xlibs.html you say that it > depend on xlibs is there something that i not get ? xlibs depend on xlibs ? > Excuse my english i'm french ; sorry to disturb you ! bash$ apt-cache show xlibs | grep Dep

Re: Debian-based distros in a new page?

2002-09-09 Thread James A. Treacy
Just some minor corrections. On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 05:13:11PM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I think description for the Debian JP is outdated. Following may be > more true. (Please verify someone who has some tie with them. I am not > a member of Debian JP.) > > x8 > Debian JP > > http://

Re: Debian-based distros in a new page?

2002-09-09 Thread James A. Treacy
Here are some suggested changes to the file. I only corrected for spelling and grammar. I do have two questions though. Should we keep the historical (not produced anymore) distros? Second, the section on Corel talks about KDE licensing issues. That doesn't seem relevant to this page. Shouldn't it

Re: http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive

2002-08-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 08:18:53PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 01:30:29PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > > > There's supposed to be a list of mirrors at the bottom of this page. > > > > However, the list is empty. > > > > >

Re: http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive

2002-08-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:35:19PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:12:28PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > > There's supposed to be a list of mirrors at the bottom of this page. > > However, the list is empty. > > Joey and Jay should be able to install woody version of grep-d

Re: DSA scripts

2002-08-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:21:22PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:43:00AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:59:13PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > Previously Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > > > &

Re: DSA scripts

2002-08-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:43:00AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 04:59:13PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Previously Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: > > > Are the advisories themselves in rdf format? > > > > Not afaik, but hopefully someone from debian-www (cc'

Re: problem with slices when building chinese/security/index.wml

2002-08-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 12:35:35AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > >From /usr/share/doc/slice/changelog.Debian.gz: > slice (1.3.8-1) unstable; urgency=low > * New upstream release. > * By default, undefined slice sets are now silently ignored. This can > be changed through the new

Re: Missing files japanese/international/l10n/{po,templates}/tmpl.src

2002-08-04 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 10:00:05AM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > > James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In looking at build errors on www.d.o I noticed two failures in > > japanese/international/l10n. If the Japanese translation team wants > > th

Re: No Makefile in portuguese/banners/2.1

2002-08-03 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 07:19:56PM +, Michelle Ribeiro wrote: > Done, Jay... Thanks. > Mistakes from a new commiter. :) No apologies needed. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problem with slices when building chinese/security/index.wml

2002-08-03 Thread James A. Treacy
chinese/security/index.wml builds correctly at home but gives the following message when building on www.d.o: make[2]: Entering directory `/org/www.debian.org/webwml/chinese/security' [snip] wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2002 -o [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -o [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ds [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: No Makefile in portuguese/banners/2.1

2002-08-02 Thread James A. Treacy
Same goes for portuguese/CD/vendors/ -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No Makefile in portuguese/banners/2.1

2002-08-02 Thread James A. Treacy
As the subject says, there is no Makefile in portuguese/banners/2.1/. Since the file was created on Jul 28 I want second guess what the creator intended and am not adding the Makefile. BTW, to prevent (non-fatal) build errors please add the appropriate Makefile to all directories added to CVS. --

spanish/CD/artwork/index.wml is broken

2002-08-02 Thread James A. Treacy
In looking at the web site build errors I encountered the following when building webwml/spanish/CD/artwor/index.wml: ERROR:index.wml:204: EOF when reading argument of the `a' tag The file contains lines like the following: http://www.heinschink.at/accounts/ntwfx/various/Linux/cdcovers/Deb+

Missing files japanese/international/l10n/{po,templates}/tmpl.src

2002-08-02 Thread James A. Treacy
In looking at build errors on www.d.o I noticed two failures in japanese/international/l10n. If the Japanese translation team wants the international/l10n directory to work better they should translate english/international/l10n/po/tmpl.src and english/international/l10n/templates/tmpl.src Neither

Re: cannot convert wml into html

2002-08-02 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:43:01AM +0200, Kaare Olsen wrote: > On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:55:02 +0200 > Giuseppe Sacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I couldn't find the error in language_names.wml (where I think it is). > > Could someone try to fix it? Thanks. > > I've just noticed two things in re

Bug#150014: www.debian.org: packages.debian.org: Use Mozilla instead of Netscape for the example

2002-06-14 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:59:13PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Version: 20020614 > Severity: wishlist > > On http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/download.pl (the page displayed when > clicking "go to download page" on a package page) the following sentence is > disp

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by alfie: webwml/ nglish/security/2000/20000812.wml ngli ...

2002-05-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:11:52PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > I am happy with either but personally think that after a : a new > sentence starts and so it should also be in english gramtically correct > to upercase it. If you like to change it back feel free to do so and/or > change it to

Bug#143859: debian-boot unarchived since 2002-04-07

2002-04-21 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 12:27:43PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: > > Package: listarchives > Version: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:27:13 +0200 > > Hi, > it seems that debian-boot is not archived sinve 2002-04-07 - The last > mails are around 07/08 of April. > If you look at the top of http://lists.debian.

Re: Avoiding outdated Makefiles

2002-04-05 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:58:18PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > I did not run 'check_trans.pl -M' for a while, and now many Makefiles > are outdated. Instead of fixing them again and again, I am going to > replace in every Makefile under french/ directory the whole content by a > single line i

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by peterk: webwml/swedish/vote howto_proposal.wml

2002-03-23 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 01:28:56PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:23:59 -0800 > Debian WWW CVS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Modified files: > > swedish/vote : howto_proposal.wml > > > > Log message: > > Sync: Since proposal.template has been added, it

Copy of wml compiled for stable available anywhere?

2002-03-21 Thread James A. Treacy
There is a link on http://www.debian.org/devel/website/using_wml to http://people.debian.org/~joey/webwml/debs/ which is broken. The intent of this link was to give access to a version of a recent version of wml compiled for stable. If anyone has a copy of this I'd love a copy so the link can be fi

Translators: remove link to wp8 on intro/why_debian.wml

2002-03-21 Thread James A. Treacy
The link to wp8 no longer works so translators should remove it from intro/why_debian.wml. Thanks. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Update needed for translations of doc/books.wml

2002-03-21 Thread James A. Treacy
A number of translation of doc/books.wml still have a link to http://www.linuxpress.com/001002.htm under the book "Debian User's Guide". This (broken) link should be removed from the page as part of updating the translation. Thanks. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by treacy: webwml/english/vote proposal.template

2002-03-20 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:30:32AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Added files: > > english/vote : proposal.template > > > > Log message: > > add missing proposal template > > Please don't tell me this has been sitting in your tree for years... :) > > BTW howto_proposal.wml says: > >

urlcheck of Debian pages updated - please check any pages you maintain

2002-03-02 Thread James A. Treacy
Many broken links have been fixed since the last run. Unfortunately there are only a few people who have been doing most of the corrections. Please look at a section that you are interested in and fix any broken links. You can ask on the list if you are unsure what a link should be changed to. Sure

Re: cvs locked

2002-02-28 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:36:18AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > Hello, > I can't commit to the root of the webwml tree: > cvs server: [22:32:54] waiting for treacy's lock in /cvs/webwml/webwml > > Am I unlucky, and are you, treacy just committing really large stuff > (locking the dir for several

Re: the top logo .jpg -> .png?

2002-02-09 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 09:43:19PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 03:10:37PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > > > > Isn't lack of transparency support for png one of the reasons we put the > > switch off? > > No, it was the lack of support for

Re: the top logo .jpg -> .png?

2002-02-09 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 04:04:13PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Are there any objections to making all the web pages use the PNG version? > Why not start by converting one image to see how it goes? > BTW I'll think about converting the "debian" text at the top to PNG, too. > Its fuzziness doesn

Broken link page updated

2002-02-07 Thread James A. Treacy
The broken link pages have been updated. See http://people.debian.org/~treacy/urlcheck/ Help stamp out broken links! Note that the pages for international/ are incomplete. This should be fixed the next time the pages are updated. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: news groups -> support

2002-02-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 08:20:19PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > I suspect it was just overzealous moving of external links to related_links. > The news groups are really mostly support channels, and in fact > hr.comp.os.linux is the primary local support channel -- I suppose > there are many simi

Re: error in german homepage

2002-02-05 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 04:56:36AM +0100, Klaus Zerwes wrote: > URI: http://www.debian.de/releases/woody/ > > 8<-->8 > Die neue Installationsanleitung und die > Release-Informationen sind als Vorschau > verf?gbar. > 8<-->8 >

Re: what's an OS on the front page

2002-02-01 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:17:39AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Will anyone mind if I remove the sentence explaining what's an operating > system from the front page? Ignoring the fact Debian is hardly the type of > thing people who don't know what an OS is should be dealing with, I figure > ther

Re: Fw: Re: RFC: renaming "Distribution"

2002-01-25 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 10:57:46AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:18:47PM +, Matthew Bell wrote: > > > - 2.2r3, 2.2r4, etc > > > > I believe these are called point releases. Perhaps the 'r' standing for > > 'release' is misleading; perhpas it should be a 'p' or '.'? >

Re: automatic language selection

2002-01-18 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 12:47:40AM -, Tiago Ferreira wrote: > Your web pages' language being automaticaly selected is quite annoying since > it happens even after selecting a link from the english version. Just > because I live in Portugal doesn't mean I want to read a Brazzilian > Portuguese t

Re: RFC: renaming "Distribution"

2002-01-18 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 07:53:25PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > It is apparent that the term "distribution" is overloaded with meanings. > We use it for the /distrib/ web page, and mention it in several other > places, meaning at least two things. This is confusing for the newbies and > nee

Re: removal of several pserver accounts

2002-01-16 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 12:20:32PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 01:32:10AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > I have removed a bunch of accounts that are obsolete -- treacy, clebars, ^^ Heh. In all the times I looke

tags and attributes in wml files (related to xhtml)

2002-01-12 Thread James A. Treacy
Denis Barbier wrote: > nearly all required changes were already described in the bugreport: >a. Put all tags and attributes (but not attribute values) in > lowercase > letters >b. Optional end tags are no more supported, so >some text here > must be written >

Re: /legal/

2002-01-12 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 06:39:52PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Since there's a lot of it there and it tends to pile up (there are other > undocumented legal issues around, too), I propose nobody objects to me > creating /legal/ on the web site. > > OK? :) > Go ahead. -- James (Jay) Treacy [E

Bug#128859: www.debian.org: /devel/wnpp/ appears to be empty.

2002-01-11 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 02:35:53PM +1100, Matt Hope wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Severity: serious > > the /devel/wnpp/ pages appear to be broken, all categories read > "no packages" or similar. > Fixed. Thanks for reporting this. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /News/

2002-01-11 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 09:59:45PM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > The current page on /News/ only displays the entries for the current > year, which currently is not very much. Wouldn't it be better if it > either showed the last ten (as /security/ does), or all for current > year or the last ten l

Re: HTML syntax errors, final episode

2002-01-08 Thread James A. Treacy
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:04:49AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > There is still one problem with wnpp.{pl,wml}, it can contain > > > which is invalid (although not reported by tidy). wnpp.pl now prints a single list item when there are no packages of a given type. Someone else can interna

Re: HTML syntax errors, final episode

2002-01-08 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:04:49AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:24:50PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > [...] > > wnpp, events, consultants and security are now fixed. > > There is still one problem with wnpp.{pl,wml}, it can contain > which is

Re: HTML syntax errors, final episode

2002-01-07 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 01:09:40AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > Almost all English pages have been fixed, great :) > Still to be fixed are: > * generated pages under /devel/wnpp/ > * /ports/hurd/ > * s/&/&/ in some data files which generate >/CD/vendors/index /consultants/ /devel/pe

Re: HTML syntax errors

2002-01-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 02:28:58PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 05:19:20PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > [...] > > Almost all are in the News directory. the Weekly News is particulary bad. > [...] > > I will fix /News/ tonight, unless someone is g

Re: Debian WWW people page

2002-01-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 12:15:25PM +0530, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote: > > I have a suggestion. Why not this be done on the basis of the email id. > For example, if in the above case, the listing was done based on email, > then, all my packages would have been listed in one place. > Take a

Re: HTML syntax errors

2002-01-04 Thread James A. Treacy
The urls in the search results should be modified to escape ampersands. For example, 2 to 2 -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HTML syntax errors

2002-01-03 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:22:37PM +, Jaime E. Villate wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:44:31PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > > In partners/index.en.html, the author wants to use a in a list. Just > > change them to ? You really should be able to have paragraphs in a >

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by treacy: webwml/english/mirror submit.wml

2002-01-03 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:50:47PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:09:05PM -0800, Debian WWW CVS wrote: > > CVSROOT:/cvs/webwml > > Module name:webwml > > Changes by: treacy 02/01/03 12:09:05 > > > > Modified files: > > english/mirror : submit.wml > > > >

Re: HTML syntax errors

2002-01-03 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:04:41PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > Hi, > > http://people.debian.org/~barbier/validate/en contains a list of errors > reported by an HTML validator (wdg-html-validator) for all English pages > except /doc/manuals/ and /releases/. > Do we want to fix those syntax errors

Re: HTML syntax errors

2002-01-03 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:04:41PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > Hi, > > http://people.debian.org/~barbier/validate/en contains a list of errors > reported by an HTML validator (wdg-html-validator) for all English pages > except /doc/manuals/ and /releases/. > Do we want to fix those syntax errors

Re: HTML syntax errors

2002-01-03 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:04:41PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > Hi, > > http://people.debian.org/~barbier/validate/en contains a list of errors > reported by an HTML validator (wdg-html-validator) for all English pages > except /doc/manuals/ and /releases/. > Do we want to fix those syntax errors

Re: new front page, take 1

2001-12-31 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 02:53:45PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Which reminds me, I need to bug the admins again (JT?) to change the log > format so we can see useragents. I'm really starting to believe CSS would be > acceptable for the vast majority of viewers, but we should have more > numbers.

Re: Improving information available in the DSAs

2001-12-28 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 01:45:53PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > What no questions/commemnts? Everyone agrees with this? Am I being overly > verbose? > Probably a mixture of apathy and holidays. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#125975: packages.debian.org: extra space after maintainers' address

2001-12-27 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 05:15:54PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Severity: minor > > On every package's description page, after referring to the maintainer > with a link to "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]" there's an extra space that is also > included in the link. > I just ch

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by danish: webwml/english/events material.wml

2001-12-27 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:46:59PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > -provide flyers. Flyers have the ability to solve many questions will > -have in mind regarding Debian, can entice them to contribute and it's > -paper they can take notes in! All in all, they are pretty useful. >

Re: probabvly a country was forgotten in vendor page

2001-12-27 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 11:49:15AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 11:24:44AM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > > > > it also seems to me that a line like > >    > > is missing. > > > > Should I add it? > > And Philippines should be added to template/debian/countries.wml (or > w

Converting the template file to xhtml

2001-12-18 Thread James A. Treacy
I have mostly converted the template files as per the previous discussion. Just a few comments: template/debian/weekly/ wasn't touched (plan to do it later) there are some in the template files. I didn't create corresponding I won't be able to touch this until after Christmas and didn't want t

Bug#98811: about XHTML compliance

2001-12-16 Thread James A. Treacy
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:28:27PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > nearly all required changes were already described in the bugreport: >a. Put all tags and attributes (but not attribute values) in lowercase > letters >b. Optional end tags are no more supported, so >some

Re: Deliberate web site reorganization

2001-12-14 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:41:31PM -0500, Jeff Albro wrote: > > If you take a look at the server logs, you can see where people went from > the main page. (grep for home page as referring link) You can tell how > people are using it now. I suspect you won't find people clicking on the > "Debian

Re: RFC: web site reorganization

2001-12-14 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:04:49PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > What I'm proposing is to make a paragraph for "Getting Debian" on the front > page, instead of just a link. > I'd prefer to leave discusssions for the details of the main page until we decide the overall layout. [snip] > > Yes, I

Re: RFC: web site reorganization

2001-12-14 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:36:44PM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > Very nice proposal James, thanks for putting this together. I can see > some thought went into this. This is a good, thorough "update" to what > we have presently with some realignment. I like it. I hope more > qualified volunteer

Re: RFC: web site reorganization

2001-12-14 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 07:53:16PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:39:33PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > > My idea of a main page is one that let's you quickly find a subpage that > > will get you the information you want. With that in mind, the new

RFC: web site reorganization

2001-12-14 Thread James A. Treacy
There have been a few discussions over the past year about reorganizing the Debian web site. Additionally, a few recent problems with placement of items on the main page have pointed out that we really are in need of some changes. This mail is a RFC on a proposed flowchart. Note the word flowchart

Re: Ports disappeared from www.debian.org?

2001-12-14 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:04:23PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > The PowerPC and Hurd pages look good -- they have more than just generic > information. The Alpha and SPARC pages seem like they could be getting > there, too. > > Note that I'm not saying there's anything wrong about generic inform

Re: Ports disappeared from www.debian.org?

2001-12-13 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:43:38PM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > * James A. Treacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011213 18:27]: > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:35:06PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > > The term 'Ports' itself is in effect an i386-ism. Supported > > >

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by csmall: webwml/english/misc merchandise.def merchandis ...

2001-12-13 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:08:25PM -0800, Debian WWW CVS wrote: > CVSROOT: /cvs/webwml > Module name: webwml > Changes by: csmall 01/12/13 16:08:25 > > Modified files: > english/misc : merchandise.def merchandise.data > > Log message: >Changed T-shirt to plural T-shirts

Re: Ports disappeared from www.debian.org?

2001-12-13 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 06:35:06PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > The term 'Ports' itself is in effect an i386-ism. Supported > Architectures is much more descriptive to non-developer types. > As always there are competing goals. Keeping the string short is one of them. -- James (Jay) Treacy [

Re: Debian WWW CVS commit by danish: webwml/danish/international/l10n/data

2001-12-13 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:25:20PM +0100, Kaare Olsen wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 22:08:50 +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > >> Directory /cvs/webwml/webwml/danish/international/l10n/data added to the > >> repository > > >this directory is useless. > > I can't seem to get rid of it; while both i

Re: Ports disappeared from www.debian.org?

2001-12-13 Thread James A. Treacy
I really meant to push the point of keeping the ports link when your first removed it. I guess my lone comment wasn't strong enough. :) On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 10:16:00PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > (Before you complain, I didn't pick that confusing term for the section > name.) > /me ducks. W

Re: Intro WWW pages

2001-12-13 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:06:41PM -0800, Grant Bowman wrote: > > I agree, this shouldn't be done haphazardly. I was trying to get a more > concrete suggestion worked out about the content before moving on > through the process and bringing it to this list. I think it's great if > both lists par

Re: Intro WWW pages

2001-12-13 Thread James A. Treacy
Hmm. the person that wrote the following has no attribution in the mail I'm responding to. > > > > One of the biggest publicity items for Debian is it's website, however > > the very important /intro/ section seems less than complete to me. I > > intend to help out in this area and I wanted to s

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

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: Upstream Developers

2001-12-07 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:38:28PM -0200, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 00:00:47 -0500 "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We'd love to make that info available. Unfortunately, no one has managed > > to push through a sta

Re: Moving euro to the front page?

2001-12-07 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 02:20:58PM +0100, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > I'm currently compiling the "euro-support" package which has been some time > in experimental (waiting for bugs :) to move it to unstable. This package, > however, due to the current problems in changing configuratio

Re: fixed MD5 sum for dsa-091-1 advisory

2001-12-07 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:16:12AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously James A. Treacy wrote: > > It seems wrong to go around changing mailing list archives. This doesn't > > help those that compare the checksum using the original announcement. > > http://www.deb

Re: Upstream Developers

2001-12-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:00:41PM -0500, Scott E. Tablett wrote: > I sometimes use the debian web pages to locate packages of interest. To > find out more information on a package/application, it might be helpful > to have a link to the upstream developer's web pages. > We'd love to make that in

Re: fixed MD5 sum for dsa-091-1 advisory

2001-12-06 Thread James A. Treacy
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:57:26AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > It seems an incorrect md5sum managed to get into dsa-091-1. The checksum > for the dsc file is wrong, it should be: 4d7fb3727479974637b7a7d5a0fec725 > > Can someone please fix that on the webpage? > It seems wrong to go arou

Re: consultants/ won't build

2001-12-05 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:23:36PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > > wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2001 -o UNDEFuEN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] index.wml > > ePerl:Error: Cannot convert bristled code file `/tmp/wml.31971.tmp1.wml' to > > pure HTML > > ** WML:Break: Error in Pass 3 (rc=74). > > make: *** [index.en

Re: english/devel/people.names

2001-12-03 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 05:46:26PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > The script that does the english/devel/people.names does take the > surename of the developer as tag. Wouldn't it be much > better to use the login of the person, for several reasons? The login > is known to be unique - the su

Re: cometh?

2001-12-03 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:23:07PM +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > Hello, > > I am now translating webwml/english/releases/woody/index.wml into > Japanese. > > However, I don't understand the word "cometh" which is used as > "Woody Cometh" as a title. I consulted some dictionaries > but I could

Re: cometh ?

2001-12-03 Thread James A. Treacy
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:29:23PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > > I would like English page writers to remind that the pages are written > > not only by native English speakers but also by users and translators > > from all over the world. > > Yes, this is sometimes a problem. Uncommon English

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