Re: Debian web pages - what needs to be done

1998-08-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Here is a list of things that are on the TODO list for the web pages. ... > Most of the docs in the Debian Documentation Project (DDP) are on an > ex-developers machine. These need to be moved to www.debian.org and > put under CVS. This is really the domain o

debian-sparc webpages

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
Since this list is waking up, I'll introduce myself.. Jay has given me CVS commit access because I've volunteered to sort out some web-pages for debian-sparc - this idea resulted from some discussion on the debian-sparc list, as there is something of a paucity of information about the port. I hav

Re: debian-sparc webpages

1998-08-11 Thread treacy
> http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc would be the place. according to > discussions I've had with Jay. I've got some ARM and powerpc pages that > need to be added there... are you going to do all of the port pages? If so, > that would be great. > The following dirs have been created under /por

Re: debian-sparc webpages

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Nils Lohner wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc would be the place. according to > discussions I've had with Jay. I've got some ARM and powerpc pages that > need to be added there... are you going to do all of the port pages? If so, > that would be great. > Fu

Re: debian-sparc webpages

1998-08-11 Thread Nils Lohner
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writ es: >> http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc would be the place. according to >> discussions I've had with Jay. I've got some ARM and powerpc pages that >> need to be added there... are you going to do all of the port pages? If so, > >> that

Re: Debian web pages - what needs to be done

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There should be pages specific to each port of Debian. There are >some available which can be linked in for the short term. Ideally >a framework will be created so that there is a similar look to each >ports pages. Once the framework is

Re: debian-sparc webpages

1998-08-11 Thread Martin Schulze
Nils Lohner wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > writ > es: > >> http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc would be the place. according to > >> discussions I've had with Jay. I've got some ARM and powerpc pages that > >> need to be added there... are you going to do all of the

Re: Debian web pages - what needs to be done

1998-08-11 Thread treacy
Jules Bean wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >There should be pages specific to each port of Debian. There are > >some available which can be linked in for the short term. Ideally > >a framework will be created so that there is a similar look to each > >port

Re: Debian web pages - what needs to be done

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 11 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jules Bean wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >There should be pages specific to each port of Debian. There are > > >some available which can be linked in for the short term. Ideally > > >a framework will be c

Re: debian-sparc webpages

1998-08-11 Thread treacy
> Since this list is waking up, I'll introduce myself.. > > Jay has given me CVS commit access because I've volunteered to sort out > some web-pages for debian-sparc - this idea resulted from some discussion > on the debian-sparc list, as there is something of a paucity of > information about the

Re: debian-sparc webpages

1998-08-11 Thread Nils Lohner
http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc would be the place. according to discussions I've had with Jay. I've got some ARM and powerpc pages that need to be added there... are you going to do all of the port pages? If so, that would be great. Thanks, Nils. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jule s B

Re: debian-sparc webpages

1998-08-11 Thread Jim Pick
Nils Lohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is also ARM. What's the procedure for adding stuff into there? The > ARM page can go in as it is.. I really like the format of the powerpc page. The NetWinder page should be made a bit more generic so it refers to other ARM machines than just t

Re: Debian web pages - what needs to be done

1998-08-11 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 02:14:10PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > If someone knows how to have make only try to build a target if the source > exists, then I'd go for each subdir having its own Makefile. Under the > current system translators only need to edit the main Makefile. We want > to minim

Bad Link in Page 1

1998-08-11 Thread Darren Benham
Well, in the process of setting up my web crawler to search Debian's pages for bad links, I came across one on the main page: Link: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/install.html Status: ftp error: 550 stable: No such file or directory. I don't have write access to fix it myse

wml and other stuff we'll need

1998-08-11 Thread Will Lowe
I'm going to buy a copy of Larry Wall's perl book. Can someone recommend a good way to learn wml? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTE

Re: wml and other stuff we'll need

1998-08-11 Thread Craig Small
Will Lowe wrote: > I'm going to buy a copy of Larry Wall's perl book. > > Can someone recommend a good way to learn wml? I'm starting to learn it too, the guy's web site has some examples but it is somewhat confusing. Downloading the wml documents off the CVS server are also a good way of learnin

Re: wml and other stuff we'll need

1998-08-11 Thread treacy
> I'm going to buy a copy of Larry Wall's perl book. > > Can someone recommend a good way to learn wml? > I found looking at examples gives you a good start. There isn't really much to it - you simply include variables and scripts from other places to do what you want. Once you know perl you wil

make sure anything you commit to CVS is working

1998-08-11 Thread treacy
It is important that anything you commit to CVS is working. The daily cron job that updates the pages from CVS is currently not finishing due to a problem with french/Makefile . I'll fix it, but please be careful. Jay Treacy - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon - [snip] found dir engli

Re: wml and other stuff we'll need

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Craig Small wrote: > Will Lowe wrote: > > I'm going to buy a copy of Larry Wall's perl book. > > > > Can someone recommend a good way to learn wml? > > I'm starting to learn it too, the guy's web site has some examples but > it is somewhat confusing. Downloading the wml docu

More bad links

1998-08-11 Thread Darren Benham
on intro/international Link: http://www.teaser.fr/~clebars/debian/fdp/docs/markup.fr.html/index.html Status: 404: Not Found Link: http://www.debian.org/intro/German/social_contract_de.html Status: 404: Not Found Link: http://www.debian.org/Italian/doc/installazione/index.html Status: 404: Not Fou

debian-sparc webpages, preliminary

1998-08-11 Thread Jules Bean
Hi all, I have just cvs committed a preliminary release of the debian-sparc webpages. There is currently no link to these pages from the main site, and this is deliberate. I want some feedback before they go fully 'live'. debian-sparc people, please check the pages for information content, and

Re: More bad links

1998-08-11 Thread Christophe Le Bars
**On 11 Aug, DB (Darren Benham) wrote: DB>on intro/international DB>Link: http://www.teaser.fr/~clebars/debian/fdp/docs/markup.fr.html/index.html DB>Status: 404: Not Found Please use this instead: http://www.teaser.fr/~clebars/debian/f2dp/docs/markup.fr.html/index.html Cordialement, --