Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Runa Agate Sandvik
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:10:35AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >Merely lists which web pages are in scope -- but nothing of the > audience. It also hand waves at the usual goodies: unified, accessible, > no javascript or flash, etc. There is nothing concrete, or anything of > any real su

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:29:47 +0200, Runa Agate Sandvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:10:35AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Merely lists which web pages are in scope -- but nothing of the >> audience. It also hand waves at the usual goodies: unified, >> accessible, no

Re: Improvements of the website

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Jens Seidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-17 12:49]: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:33:43PM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> * I don't believe we should favor XML(-ish stuff) above simplified >> markup when the target audience are humans. XML is good for many things >> but definitely not for be

Re: Improvements of the website

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Grégoire Duchêne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-22 11:18]: > You won't educate users, and you cannot force them to read security > advisories. You can't force them to read them, but not giving them the chance to and show them in that way that it in fact _is_ an important thing is a wrong approach

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-26 00:10]: > So, since my telepathy powers are obviously on the blink, can > you tell me what the goals of the rewrite (apart from the 3 foot > buzzwords of accessibility, browser independence, restrict javascript) > are? Ah, the usua

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-26 08:14]: > If accessibility is a goal, how are you certain we are not > meeting it? The web site has no javascript I can discern, it is > localized in my language, it uses no flash, it is accessible y braille > terminals. Have we not alr

Re: Inconsistency on translated pages links.

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* NAGY Viktor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-23 11:09]: > These constraints are quite strict. Are there any website statistics > which prove that it's really worth to maintain website mirrors and give > up using server-side dynamic content? And what would you want to use server-side dynamic conte

Re: Address does not work!

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Alexsander Farias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-25 20:58]: >I've tried to access today, for the first time, the address > http://manpages.debian.net/, but the only thing that it showed was "it > works". Is that right? manpages.debian.net is not an official service from Debian (as can be se

Re: links from packages.debian.org

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Luca Brivio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-21 15:50]: > the page at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages (that is, > packages.debian.org) doesn't point to even existing > http://packages.debian.org/experimental/, and /oldstable/ > (while does to /stable/, /testing/, and /unstable/). > > Is thi

Re: Number of packages on front page

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Tobias Toedter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-23 12:48]: > On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:52, Jens Seidel wrote: >> In the last time I always wondered whether this refers to binary or >> source packages. I know I could now parse "Packages" files and check but > > Hm, I just wondered what we actually m

Re: Improvements of the website

2007-04-26 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070426 15:33]: > >>* I don't believe we should favor XML(-ish stuff) above simplified > >> markup when the target audience are humans. XML is good for many things > >> but definitely not for being edited by the casual user. BTW there are > > XML is at

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-21 18:35]: > For example, I really dislike that when I hit the mailing list > archive link, instead of being shown the archives based on > list/year/month directly, I am asked whether I want a developer mailing > list or a user list. The a

Debian CD vendors list

2007-04-26 Thread Federico J. Fernández
Hi Debian people! We would like to be added to the Debian CD vendors list. We're a small open source group in Argentina triyng to spread the voice about free/opensource software in Latin America. We think that selling Debian CDs to the community is a positive action in that way. We'll be glad of

Re: Inconsistency on translated pages links.

2007-04-26 Thread Tommi Vainikainen
On 2007-04-23T07:55:23+0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was browsing through the site and noticed that even after i had changed to > the spanish version, every time i clicked on a link it would take to the > english version of the page. That is because your have such settings in your web browser

Re: Number of packages on front page

2007-04-26 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
23 квітня 2007 о 10:47 +0200 Wojciech Zareba написав(-ла): > I have the same problem in Polish (becouse 18733 pakiety, but 18735 > pakietów). It would be solved by Perl script, I think, but as variable... > Ok, I did that with Ukrainian translation. -- Eugeniy Meshcheryakov signature.asc Desc

Re: Number of packages on front page

2007-04-26 Thread Tommi Vainikainen
On 2007-04-26T17:20:59+0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Tobias Toedter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-23 12:48]: >> Shouldn't we just replace the current value with e.g. 18,700? It's not >> updated anyway, it's hardcoded in english/releases/info. > > Sounds reasonable to me, though I'm not the one

Re: Improvements of the website

2007-04-26 Thread Joseph Neal
> MJ Ray schrieb: > > Bastian Venthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > >> * I don't believe we should favor XML(-ish stuff) above simplified > >> markup when the target audience are humans. XML is good for many things > >> but definitely not for being edited by the casual user. [...] > >

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:03:20 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-26 08:14]: >> If accessibility is a goal, how are you certain we are not meeting >> it? The web site has no javascript I can discern, it is localized in >> my language, i

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:51:26 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-26 00:10]: >> So, since my telepathy powers are obviously on the blink, can you >> tell me what the goals of the rewrite (apart from the 3 foot >> buzzwords of access

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:25:40 +0200, Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > * Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-21 18:35]: >> For example, I really dislike that when I hit the mailing list >> archive link, instead of being shown the archives based on >> list/year/month directly, I

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >Merely lists which web pages are in scope -- but nothing of the > audience. It also hand waves at the usual goodies: unified, accessible, > no javascript or flash, etc. There is nothing concrete, or anything of > any real substance here, when

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:00:53 +0200, Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >As far as I am concerned, looking prettier is exactly what I'd like > to be achieved, nothing more. Please consider the layout change page a > way to achieve a unified, more appealing website. >I do not believe th

Re: Website Designs

2007-04-26 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Ah. If this is just about adding bling, and not about things > like removing security advisories from the top page to help lambda > users, then my interest in this efforts fade. Please ignore the noise, > then. I would be interested in