Re: Minor suggestions on WML source files

2000-02-02 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 11:49:52PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > here are some files you may fix to avoid future problems with WML: > > * template/debian/recent_list.wml > * SPI/template/recent_list.wml > * template/debian/event.wml > * template/debian/past_event.wml > * template/debian/weekl

Re: Password in the DB (fwd)

2000-02-02 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 04:33:17PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > I think db.debian.org should probably be prominately linked from the > /devel/ pages in the website - particularly I'd love to see a direct link > to the 'lost password' page - that is the most common question I get :> > I just

Re: Minor suggestions on WML source files

2000-02-02 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 11:49:52PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: > > * template/debian/weeklynews/index.wml Forgot this one. A quick inspection didn't show the string 'define'. What was the problem part of this file? -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Abbrev of country names - need immediate feedback

2000-02-02 Thread James A. Treacy
I just committed a change to use iso3166 abbrevs for the country names. Unfortunately, this clashes with some html tags: BR for line break and Brazil; TR in a table and Turkey. We need to add something to the country abbreviations to make them unique. Any suggestions? Perhaps appending a 'c', for

Re: Abbrev of country names - need immediate feedback

2000-02-02 Thread peter karlsson
James A. Treacy: > We need to add something to the country abbreviations to make them unique. > Any suggestions? Perhaps appending a 'c', for country, to them. That's probably a good idea. Hopefully, it will not clash with any future HTML keywords... > I need to fix this before the pages update

More SPI fun

2000-02-02 Thread Craig Small
G'day, I think the wml builder needs to be totally run over the SPI pages. I'm seeing a lot of broken internal links, mainly because a link will go to www.spi-inc.org/blah instead of www.spi-inc.org/blah.html Not every page and not every link. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ, PGP: AD 8

Re: More SPI fun

2000-02-02 Thread peter karlsson
Craig Small: > I think the wml builder needs to be totally run over the SPI pages. > I'm seeing a lot of broken internal links, mainly because a link will > go to www.spi-inc.org/blah instead of www.spi-inc.org/blah.html There shouldn't be any links to pages ending in '.html', since the pag

Re: Why Debian's webpages aren't DFGS-free ?

2000-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Arrrgh! I brought this up on debian-www some time back, and I thought we agreed to change it to something free. I am rather pissed off that my work on the web pages (DWN) continues to go out under this license. If something isn't done soon, I may move future issues, and keep the copyright, rahte

web page has duttch leakage

2000-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
The front page of the website has leaked text from the dutch translations in two places -- the link to DWN and "select a server near you". I have tried with netscape and w3m, this doesn't seem to be a broswer issue. -- see shy jo, in New York

Re: Abbrev of country names - need immediate feedback

2000-02-02 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:19:42AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > James A. Treacy: > > > We need to add something to the country abbreviations to make them unique. > > Any suggestions? Perhaps appending a 'c', for country, to them. > > That's probably a good idea. Hopefully, it will not clash wit

Re: Why Debian's webpages aren't DFGS-free ?

2000-02-02 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Feb 02, Joey Hess wrote: > I brought this up on debian-www some time back, and I thought we agreed to > change it to something free. > > I am rather pissed off that my work on the web pages (DWN) continues to go > out under this license. If something isn't done soon, I may move future > issues,

Re: Why Debian's webpages aren't DFGS-free ?

2000-02-02 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 12:17:24AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Arrrgh! > > I brought this up on debian-www some time back, and I thought we agreed to > change it to something free. > > I am rather pissed off that my work on the web pages (DWN) continues to go > out under this license. If something

Re: Abbrev of country names - need immediate feedback

2000-02-02 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 11:19:42AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > James A. Treacy: > > Have you changed all the pages that use the current country codes? And, are > you planning on changing the language codes the same way? > Forgot to answer the last question. The language codes are only used fro

Re: Why Debian's webpages aren't DFGS-free ?

2000-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
James A. Treacy wrote: > I don't care about this issue (got too many things going on at once). Come to > a consensus about what to do and someone do it. Well I hope _someone_ gives a damn about little things like our social contract! -- see shy jo

english/events/index.wml does not compile

2000-02-02 Thread Aurelian Melinte
hello, I just noticed that the new version 1.18 does not compile, at least on my machine A. This is WML Version 1.7.4 (06-Oct-1999) Copyright (c) 1996,1997,1998,1999 Ralf S. Engelschall. Copyright (c) 1999 Denis Barbier.

Re: web page has duttch leakage

2000-02-02 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:46:18AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > The front page of the website has leaked text from the dutch translations in > two places -- the link to DWN and "select a server near you". I have tried > with netscape and w3m, this doesn't seem to be a broswer issue. > Fixed. Should b

Re: Why Debian's webpages aren't DFGS-free ?

2000-02-02 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:09:39AM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > James A. Treacy wrote: > > I don't care about this issue (got too many things going on at once). Come > > to > > a consensus about what to do and someone do it. > > Well I hope _someone_ gives a damn about little things like our social

Be on the lookout for errors in the web pages

2000-02-02 Thread James A. Treacy
A number of changes were made in the last day or two to the web site. As always happens, some mistakes were made. I have cleaned up all the problems I found and heard about, but may have overlooked or introduced some others. Please fix or report any bugs asap after todays mirror run. -- James (J

Re: Why Debian's webpages aren't DFGS-free ?

2000-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
James A. Treacy wrote: > People need to remember that the web content is the responsibility of > everyone. Most of the people on this list (including you, Joey) have > CVS access. If you see a small problem, fix it. If you see a bigger > problem, discuss it on debian-www and then fix it. I have C

Re: Why Debian's webpages aren't DFGS-free ?

2000-02-02 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Lawrence wrote: > The solution seems rather obvious: > > Don't assign the copyright and use your own license. > > I can't see a problem with putting pages on the web site that have a > less restrictive license than the SPI copyright. As a matter of fact, > there can't be a problem, because