Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 06:02:06PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > A rather long list of bad links on the web site can be > > found at http://www.debian.org/~treacy/. > > I'm looking at releases/, and I think I'll eliminate the slink release notes > problem bunch in a

Re: proper URL for links into cvs.debian.org

2000-07-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 12:01:01PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > If you want to create links into cvs.debian.org, the following is > the proper format: > http://cvs.debian.org/?cvsroot= > > For example, > http://cvs.debian.org/webwml/english/MailingLists/HOWTO_start_list.wml?cvsroot=webwml BTW

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 01:13:16PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > I should point out one particular problem (there are others) with > the current urlchecker. If a link to a dir does not contain a > final /, then the root doesn't get set correctly and links will > be searched in the wrong directory

Re: Help fix bad links on the web site

2000-07-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 02:29:27PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > Another quirk of this urlchecker is that while it only checks each url > once, it also only lists a bad link the first time it encounters it. This > means that you need to check the translations for the same bad link. If > another p

Bug#67323: www.debian.org: search program not found

2000-07-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Jul 16, 2000 at 05:48:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Version: 2716 > Severity: normal > > http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.new.pl?page=2&word=usr/share/i18n/charmaps&version=unstable&arch=i386 > and klicking on [2] for the next results res

Bug#67770: w.d.o/2.0 has obsolete link to slink page

2000-07-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:17:30PM +0300, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > Version: N/A; > Severity: normal > > I don't know if there is any link to this page (w.d.o/2.0/) but maybe > it should be fixed anyway. In first chapter, there is link to slink, > but link should point

Re: Bug#67652: marked as done (ftp.debian.org: Package macutils_2.0b3-8 not found on server)

2000-07-26 Thread Josip Rodin
reopen 67652 reassign 67652 www.debian.org severity 67652 normal thanks On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:28:29AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 12:47:06PM +0200, Francois Mescam wrote: > > Package: ftp.debian.org > > Version: 2724 > > Severity: important > > > >

daily web-related cronjob

2000-07-26 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, The daily building and push mirroring of the web site for today won't (hasn't) happen(ed) at the same time as it had previously, as there have been some reorganizations in the scripts that do it. To Jay: James has removed the old web run-parts entry from maor crontab on master a few minutes a

Re: files in international/l10n take too long to process

2000-07-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:37:25AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > This is indeed what i realized, version shipped with Potato has a bad > designed pass5, which has been fixed lately because this slow processing > only occurs with large files. NB take a look at http://lully.debian.org/~joy/webwml/bu

Re: anon cvs access to wml sources

2000-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:41:57AM +0200, Nils Lohner wrote: > At the 0thDC people suggested 'packaging' the debian web site so > people could download it and submit patches to it but a better idea > may be allowing anonymous cvs read access to the wml to let people > file bugs with patches against

website TODO file

2000-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi ppl, For those who don't track CVS logs: I've moved webwml/english/todo.wml file to webwml/english/devel/website/todo.wml, updated it a little bit, and added an few newer entries. Please use it to add new to-do entries (and we all know that there's always something `to do' :) ) -- Digital El

Re: Bug#67800: No list at all on the Web form?

2000-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
reassign 67800 www.debian.org thanks On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:11:11AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Package: lists.debian.org > Version: N/A; > Severity: important > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/subscribe > > says: > > Please select which lists you want to subscribe to: > > Bu

Re: anon cvs access to wml sources

2000-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 05:34:29PM +0200, Nils Lohner wrote: > >> At the 0thDC people suggested 'packaging' the debian web site so > >> people could download it and submit patches to it but a better idea > >> may be allowing anonymous cvs read access to the wml to let people > >> file bugs with pat

Re: files in international/l10n take too long to process

2000-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 10:21:01PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > This is indeed what i realized, version shipped with Potato has a bad > > > designed pass5, which has been fixed lately because this slow processing > > > only occurs with large files. > > > > NB take a look at http://lully.debia

Re: files in international/l10n take too long to process

2000-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:08:03AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > This is indeed what i realized, version shipped with Potato has a bad > > > designed pass5, which has been fixed lately because this slow processing > > > only occurs with large files. > > > > NB take a look at http://lully.debia

Re: files in international/l10n take too long to process

2000-07-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:26:27AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > * Templates defining complex tags have to include wml::sys::compat1 > > > > Um, what are tags are complex? Pardon my ignorance, I'm still rookie in wml. > > Sure, complex (or also called container) tags are like ... Ah, those

Re: files in international/l10n take too long to process

2000-07-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:06:34PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > Also, I've noticed that the pass 9 takes quite a lot of time on > > vendors.CD file, too; however two slices are used in the file. Could we > > everything but that chunk? > > I do not understand what you are suggesting, but give i

Re: files in international/l10n take too long to process

2000-07-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:35:30PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > >so it would be nice to create an empty file called > > >webwml/english/template/debian/sys/compat1.wml > > ~~~ this part shouldn't be needed :) > I find the extra, unneeded level a

Re: files in international/l10n take too long to process

2000-07-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 02:17:34PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > What I'm saying is: most of the file doesn't need passes 5 (divert) and 9 > > (slices). The line 897 is the only one that uses slices: > > > > > ±M½æ©±:]> > > > > So we could also skip pass 9 for everything but that line. >

website building under wml 2

2000-07-29 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi people, I went around the site and fixed all those little syntax errors that wml2 detected. Please everyone, use weblint to check your code before commiting to cvs. You can even do weblint file.wml, it'll report a few harmless errors due to wml, but the rest of the output (if any) will be pure

Re: files in international/l10n take too long to process

2000-07-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:06:34PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > BTW why not fix individual documents containing container tags and include > > wml::sys::compat1 in them? Perhaps with some kind of conditional, so that we > > don't have to make the bogus directory with a bogus file in it. > > I a

Re: files in international/l10n take too long to process

2000-07-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Jul 30, 2000 at 01:47:18AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > A better solution is to check whether define-container is defined, > > > but i did not yet have a working version. > > > > You mean, check in each file if is used, and if yes use > > '-i wml::sys::compat1'? Considering how littl

web site appearance

2000-07-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 11:08:38PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > The point here is to increase the appeal of Debian for new users. > More users will evenutally equate to more volunteers. More volunteers > means the work can be spread around and more ambitious localization > projects can be attemp

Changes to the web site build system for most languages

2000-07-30 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi people, I noticed how many of the toplevel translation makefiles are duplicated, so I ran a few diff's of all the latin-based language translations' Make* files with the english version. The result was that basically nothing needed changes. So I made a `united' makefile, located in ../Makefile

Re: Changes to the web site build system for most languages

2000-07-30 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 03:15:10AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > I noticed how many of the toplevel translation makefiles are duplicated, so > I ran a few diff's of all the latin-based language translations' Make* files > with the english version. The result was that basic

Re: What to do with fixed but not closed bugs?

2000-07-31 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 04:45:43PM +0300, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: > Sometimes I've noticed there are bugs, which are fixed, but not > closed. So I'm asking should I ask close such bugs by myself or should > I rather noticed somebody about those bugs? (Who, this list?) > > For example now bugs #62

Re: time to remove all .gif from the site

2000-08-17 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:52:56PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > You can test your browser at > > http://metatron.tky.hut.fi/debian.org/>. And if you go there, > > could somebody please explain what's wrong because there is that > > strange "%body" text? (I only "make"d english and finnish langua

wml issues, divert stuff and upgrade to wml2

2000-08-17 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi guys, I noticed Anthony's changes to templates made all the pages look bad under wml2, so I fixed it. What I noticed later is that the change makes the pages look bad under wml1. >:< We could probably avoid this problem by undoing the initial changes, I guess... Anyway, I also noticed this in

Re: wml issues, divert stuff and upgrade to wml2

2000-08-17 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 11:53:47AM -0600, Anthony Fok wrote: > > I noticed Anthony's changes to templates made all the pages look bad under > > wml2, so I fixed it. What I noticed later is that the change makes the pages > > look bad under wml1. >:< We could probably avoid this problem by undoing t

Re: wml issues, divert stuff and upgrade to wml2

2000-08-17 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:46:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > potato machines. Considering everyone should be using potato nowadays > > because it is the release named stable, this shouldn't be a problem. > > Yes. All sites have an instant upgrade system. All sites used for editing Debian we

Re: wml issues, divert stuff and upgrade to wml2

2000-08-17 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 09:09:30AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > I know a lot of time is taken up with the vendors page, which should be > able to move over to a DB one soon. Denis Barbier made changes in the latest wml version that speed up generating the vendors page by an order of magnitude. A va

Re: Developers Corner and Packaging Manual [was Re: problems using debstd]

2000-08-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 11:50:20AM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > Would someone please fix the links/pages on www.debian.org to be > > consistent? > > What about adding the following lines in the Miscellaneous section? > > For people interested in packaging a software for Debian, the best start

Re: [rms@gnu.org: [cwither@aloha.net: Re: GNU/Linux Cookbook addendum to addendum]]

2000-08-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 03:29:24AM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > > http://www.debian.org/intro/about reportedly says > > > > I'm still not convinced > > > > Not to worry. As hard disk space has become cheap, most people > > have at least 500MB of extra space. Debian can be easily in

Re: lists.debian.org not updating some lists

2000-08-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:01:32PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: Kinda old post, but I felt this below needed to be said. > > (*)You might be wondering why we don't simply have one machine that hosts > > www.d.o, is where the daily updates are done, functions as the mirror > > server and hosts cg

Re: News item?

2000-08-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 08:15:04PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > Shouldn't the Debian 2.2 dedication notice be reflected somewhere on > the web as well, either as a news item or in the releases/potato > section (or both)? The press release contained information on the dedication, and I've just up

Re: Bad links in the install documents on the website

2000-08-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 07:22:34PM +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: > Since it seemed that the spanish translation was a month behind, and > Enrique might be on vacation, I have updated (most) of the translation so > most of the problems associated with the (.es) files should be remove

lists archives | disk space

2000-08-18 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi people, The lists archives aren't quite in a happy state right now, being run from ~maor, nobody but Guy and the admins can edit/fix anything. So I asked james to make /org/lists.debian.org, writable to debwww people, and copied ~maor/debian-lists there and changed all (hopefully all) paths in

Re: potato release notes missing

2000-08-18 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 04:27:14PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > I disagree, it's useful, having directories without index.html is bad. > > I deny it is actually useful. All of its information is more > completely and clearly stated at > http://www.debian.org/releases/potato/index.*.html. That

Re: Debian WWW CVS: joy

2000-08-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 05:14:37PM +0300, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: > > Modified files: > > english/Bugs : Makefile > > (and lots other Makefiles too) I counted 478 Makefile files. :) The joys of shell scripting. NB I'll do a few more changes soon, to get the remaining makefiles in order.

Re: Packages

2000-08-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 06:17:07PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > I'm just a bit curious, but why is http://www.debian.org/Packages/ a > mirror of http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages but without the > translations? It's a symlink, I made it manually. Suggestions how to make it work for translat

mp4h seems to misparse the ê character as

2000-08-19 Thread Josip Rodin
Package: mp4h On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 10:35:44PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > I upgraded to the wml in woody (2.0.2), since the CVS files no longer > work with the potato wml, and now I can't get it to work: > > $ make > wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2000 -o UNDEFuEN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HOWTO_start_list.wml

Re: Packages

2000-08-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 12:04:54AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > It's a symlink, I made it manually. Suggestions how to make it work for > > translations are welcome. :) > > Also symlink all the translations, perhaps? Doable, but if a translation gets removed, it's a 404... > Or perhaps just

Re: Packages

2000-08-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:10:46AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > Doable, but if a translation gets removed, it's a 404... > > Can't one automate that with a Makefile of some sorts? Most probably. > > Anyway, nothing's linked to www.debian.org/Packages, so it doesn't > > really matter. > > We

Re: Changes

2000-08-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:24:08AM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > When you change markup on pages and don't change the content, please > try to change as few lines as possible, so that I, and the other > translators, won't have to wade through miles of lines that are changed > according to the diff

Re: Changes

2000-08-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:22:20PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > > Besides, it's known that humans have less ability to concentrate on reading > > text written in very short and very long columns. 80 characters (sometimes > > less) is a common limit for e-mail and most other e-documents[1], so why

Re: Build problems revisited

2000-08-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:25:55PM +0200, peter karlsson wrote: > Seems like the previous problem solved itself somehow (?), but now make > fails when it comes to the SPI directory. I saw some recent changes in > the CVS, but I can't figure out why it does this: > > make -C SPI > make[1]: Entering

Bug#69023: www.debian.org: What is "free hardware"? (in distrib/packages.wml)

2000-08-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 06:14:36PM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: > In The CVS file webwml/english/distrib/packages.wml you can read, > when describing the "contrib" area: > > "Packages in this area are free themselves but depend on other > software or hardware that is not free" > > I w

linking to directories without index.html | website mirroring issues

2000-08-21 Thread Josip Rodin
[removed -boot and cesarb from CC:, the discussion below shouldn't bother those] On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:05:50AM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > > > I disagree, it's useful, having directories without index.html is bad. > > > > > > I deny it is actually useful. All of its information is mor

Re: lists archives | disk space

2000-08-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 12:57:02AM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > The lists archives aren't quite in a happy state right now, being run from > > ~maor, nobody but Guy and the admins can edit/fix anything. So I asked james > > to make /org/lists.debian.org, writable to debwww people, and copied >

Re: linking to directories without index.html | website mirroring issues

2000-08-21 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:42:06AM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > > Directories that are used as links should contain index.html as well as > > > index.*.html. This is because an available variant with no language > > > extension > > > is displayed (index.html in this case) if no language can b

Re: making web changes for releases easier

2000-08-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 03:10:00PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > #include "$(ENGLISHDIR)/release_info" > <: if ( $frozen_release_exists ) { _:> > stuff that only appears if frozen exists > <: } :> > > The file $(ENGLISHDIR)/release_info will contain the following: > 2.2 > 2000-08-14 >

Re: cannot find people.names file

2000-08-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:36:27PM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > it was probably too long ago I compiled the complete wml directory. today > I was rebuilding everything and I found a strange error. This is what I > can see on my screen: > > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../../english/devel

Bug#69739: Mailing list archive search broken?

2000-08-22 Thread Josip Rodin
reassign 69739 listarchives thanks On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 10:45:09PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > Package: www.debian.org > When searching debian-devel for "ITP", the only results returned are > from juli 2000. If the 3rd quarter of 2000 isn't selected, there are no > results at all, which can

Re: Dutch translation of www.debian.org

2000-08-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:18:08AM +0200, Teun Vink wrote: > I noticed that the Dutch translation of www.debian.org has not been > updated in a long time (since February 2000). The site still refers to > 2.1 as the most recent release. I also noticed some spelling errors and > awkward translations.

Re: error in translated page index.html

2000-08-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:19:40AM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > I have some problem about the italian translation. I committed my > changes to CVS 48 hours ago and still cannot see the page updated in w.d.o. I'll check out what happened to the daily build... > I have a different problem on my

Bug#69023: www.debian.org: What is "free hardware"? (in distrib/packages.wml)

2000-08-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 05:18:19PM +0200, Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona wrote: > > > In The CVS file webwml/english/distrib/packages.wml you can read, > > > when describing the "contrib" area: > > > > > > "Packages in this area are free themselves but depend on other > > > software or hardware t

Re: Website not updating? (Was: Re: Update for CD Vendors page)

2000-08-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 08:22:42AM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > You're sure? Or has the nightly webpage rebuild stopped working? I've > > waited a > > few days, but still the page doesn't seem to have changed. > > Yes, you're right. The page was last updated 17 August. I've definitely > checked

listarchives now under debwww jurisdiction

2000-08-23 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi people, With some essential help from James Troup, I've converted the lists archives to use the stuff under /org/lists.debian.org/ on master.debian.org. This was done in order to enable all members of the debwww group to fix stuff if/when it breaks. See /org/lists.debian.org/README on master fo

Re: listarchives now under debwww jurisdiction

2000-08-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 09:52:27PM -0500, Cesar Mendoza wrote: > Josip, I'm sorry I didn't have time this week to help you. Will you be able to work on this in the future? I can ask the admins to put you in debwww so that you're able to edit files. > unfilteredmbox is 32MB and unless some body w

Re: wnpp stuff in english/devel

2000-08-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 11:50:07PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > Could the wnpp stuff in english/devel/ be moved into its own > directory? english/devel/wnpp/ would make sense. I wouldn't mind... > wnpp.wml would be moved to english/devel/wnpp/index.wml. The neat thing is > that existing links

Re: A few comments on recent changes

2000-08-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:34:01PM +0300, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: > At least I would like to get release date formatted per language > basis. As a finnish speaker, it would be much nicer to have > "14. elokuuta 2000" than "2000-08-14". > > Maybe easier way than slices for this would be adding sm

Re: permissions in ~debian/lists on master

2000-08-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 04:26:38AM -0500, Remco van de Meent - Debian Listmaster wrote: > > Please look into the permissions in master:~debian/lists. > > > > Several directories have weird modes, like no x bits set. > > As a result, I can not access many of the list archives. > > > > Are these t

Re: permissions in ~debian/lists on master

2000-08-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 11:34:37AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > Are these the main list archives? I hope not, because at > > > least the debian-bugs-dist archive seems to be very > > > incomplete. Who maintains these archives? listmaster? > > It's the main and permanent archive of the lis

Re: Cron /org/lists.debian.org/cron.daily

2000-08-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 01:23:06PM -0500, Cron Daemon wrote: > ERROR: Unable to create > /org/lists.debian.org/www/debian-user-0008/.mhonarc.lck after 10 tries > /org/lists.debian.org/mhonarc/bin/mhonarc -quiet -rcfile > /org/lists.debian.org/scripts/debian.rc -outdir > /org/lists.debian.org/www

Bug#62815: listarchives: does not list gnomehack list

2000-08-26 Thread Josip Rodin
severity 62815 wishlist thanks Hi, > Package: listarchives > Version: N/A; reported 2000-04-22 > Severity: normal > > ...and thus possibly other ones. This list is scanned for maintainer > activity, as reflected in the LDAP pages, so I guess it should be > accessible ? The web list archive at

Bug#69739: acknowledged by developer (Mailing list archive search broken?)

2000-08-27 Thread Josip Rodin
reopen 69739 retitle 69739 mailing list search only returns matches from July 2000 thanks On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 05:30:39PM +0200, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > > The mailing lists search page at http://lists.debian.org/ should be > > working fine now. Please reopen or file new bugs if you experience >

Re: About problems with wml

2000-08-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 03:45:28PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > i'm back from vacation, read some (but not all) mails from this list and > wonder how i may help you to solve problems with wml. Could someone post > a summary of complaints against wml? Hm, what you wrote below covers all of it, IIR

Re: About problems with wml

2000-08-27 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 05:00:27PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > Concerning slice, i will release version 1.3.7 very soon to fix a bug > > > reported by Josip. > > > > Great! I see I managed to send it to the right mailing list :) > > > > When you release it, drop me a note so I can package i

more on lists.debian.org scripts

2000-08-27 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, Cesar: you have been added to the debwww group on master.debian.org as of a few minutes ago (thanks Joey :). You can now replace the old scripts with the new ones. Please do it step by step, keep the old files somewhere, and test your changes thoroughly before removing old files. See the /org/

listarchives rebuild time

2000-08-27 Thread Josip Rodin
I've changed the crontab to rebuild lists archives at 16:22 (three hours after the previous), because the lists get mirrored with the rest of the site after 17:30, so there's not much point in having the 3hr offset. Although updating the archive usually takes a couple of minutes (IME), having an h

Re: CVS updates

2000-08-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 01:51:00PM +0200, E.L. Willighagen wrote: > i adapted the wml files for NL and added the first new item translation. > i did "make; make install" and "cvs commit". > Both from /webml/dutch... > the new wml files were uploaded, but the website was not... > > Do i need to up

Re: About problems with wml

2000-08-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 01:05:06PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote: > > Anyhow, Josip, I will upload mp4h_1.1.0-1.1 shortly (I am so impatient. > > :-). Please install this new one on master.debian.org to ensure that > > the Chinese pages are compiled properly. Thanks! :-) > > I just installed it

Re: more on lists.debian.org scripts

2000-08-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 09:26:27PM -0500, Cesar Mendoza wrote: > > You can now replace the old scripts with > > the new ones. Please do it step by step, keep the old files somewhere, and > > test your changes thoroughly before removing old files. See the > > /org/lists.debian.org/README file, I've

Re: permissions in ~debian/lists on master

2000-08-29 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 08:43:21AM -0500, Remco van de Meent - Debian Listmaster wrote: > > (BTW, can you tell me all the people behind > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I can update > > www.debian.org/devel/maintainer_contacts page, please?) > > I think Martin 'Joey' Schulze and me are the only people lo

Re: unacurate info on the page international/index.wml

2000-09-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:20:26PM +0200, Martin Quinson wrote: > Please change the page international/index.wml > > For now, it is written : > | It is thus suggested that a group of people get > | together to share the load. A good way to get started is to request > | a Debian user mailing list

Bug#49685: acknowledged by developer (pointers/archive of debian-user-de)

2000-09-08 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 08:57:09PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > > The Debian web pages about mailing lists have links to debian-user-de > > mailing list now. > > please add a link to the archives page (http://lists.debian.org/) as > well. Should I reopen the bug? I don't know if that's possib

Re: stop sending spam

2000-09-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:35:50PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > > I didn't join this list to have this stuff clutter up my mailbox. > > > Please could some admin sort these people out. > > > > The productive way to deal with this is to take the spam gatewayed to > > the list and use it to file

Re: [listarchives] debian-superh list misscategorized

2000-09-11 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 02:54:37PM +0200, Jordi wrote: > > Can you send me the exact name of the list so I can fix it. > > The list is debian-superh, in the "Misc" section. > I guess it was called like this to avoid confusion with "sh" meaning shells. > The port directory in the archive is called

Re: (Re: Chuan-kai Lin's thoughts on the DAM comment in the NM database)

2000-09-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:07:52AM -0500, Remco van de Meent - Debian Listmaster wrote: > > I don't even know if that is the case :-( It seems that on August > > 26, some change was made which stopped any mails from murphy being > > archived on master. This affected every list. I don't know wha

Re: Test search engine

2000-09-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:43:05PM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > I'm not sure if i mentioned this, but I'm testing udmsearch on master. > I looks quite nice and has plenty of features. Currently the version > sitting there does not select on language (though the DB does it), > I have a patched ver

Re: Crud on master

2000-09-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 04:35:44PM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > Can someone who knows what should and should not be there go onto > master and have a look at /org/www.debian.org/debian.org ? > > There seems a lot of crud we don't need there, like the old SPI,Belin > etc pages. The SPI/ directory

Re: Crud on master

2000-09-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:40:22AM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > > The SPI/ directory is old/obsolete? It's still in webwml CVS, and > > www.spi-inc.org points to the same IP as www.debian.org... > Yeah i think that is still needed, but why is it there? > Convention says there should be an /org/www.s

website tri-daily rebuild time

2000-09-12 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi ppl, I haven't seen this exact change on -www list: treacy crontab on master reads: 24 7,15,23 * * * /org/www.debian.org/cron/daily ...meaning the web site gets rebuilt and mirrored every 8 instead of 24 hours. Go JT! :) I'll update READMEs and the crontab entry for lists.d.o rebuild to t

Re: (Re: Chuan-kai Lin's thoughts on the DAM comment in the NM database)

2000-09-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:59:40AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > I think the problem is that the lists/procmailrc in ~debian on master > > > was removed (who did it?) causing a lot of archiving to stop. Most of > > > it was replaced by joy's archive system, but not all of it. > > > > All I kno

Re: (Re: Chuan-kai Lin's thoughts on the DAM comment in the NM database)

2000-09-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:22:02PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > Should I contact James or does one of you wish to? I think having an > > > archive of all major lists, such as private, is pretty useful. > > > > AFAICT debian-newmaint-admin is getting web-archived since a few days ago. > > The

Re: (Re: Chuan-kai Lin's thoughts on the DAM comment in the NM database)

2000-09-15 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 02:53:07AM -0500, Remco van de Meent - Debian Listmaster wrote: > > Nevertheless, everything else seems to be back to normal: -private is > > now being archived once more in master:~debian/archive/debian-private > > etc., so thank you to everyone who helped to get that work

Bug#36927: what kind of Debian CDs does JF Lehmanns ship?

2000-09-16 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, I wish someone could tell us (the web people) for sure which CDs does `JF Lehmanns' sell. Their web page is at http://www.lob.de/ and it requires a German-speaking person. :) TIA. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification

wml speed!

2000-09-17 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, % wml -v -D CUR_YEAR=2000 -o UNDEFuEN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vendors.wml ** WML:Verbose: Processing time (seconds): ** WML:Verbose: main | ipp mp4h epl gm4 div asub hfix hstr slic | TOTAL ** WML:Verbose: | - - | -- ** WML:Verbose: 0.67 |

glimpse sucks.

2000-09-18 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, I just noticed this in the daily log, /org/lists.debian.org/daily.log: ./buildindex: line 50: 23092 Segmentation fault glimpseindex -B -o -X -H /org/lists.debian.org/lists/glimpse/tmp -i $list1 $list2 $list3 That's after the `usual' error messages :/ Glimpse is not performing satisfact

Re: glimpse sucks.

2000-09-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:46:07AM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > > Craig, what's happening to udmsearch, can we switch to that? > > It's working well, now that we have fixed some wierd postgresql uses > /tmp error. Good! > I'm not too happy with the index/website ratio, it doesn't understand > two

Re: Implementing the search engine

2000-09-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:31:33AM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > The udmsearch search engine seems to be working quite nicely. I'd > like to bring it online in a better spot. Currently it sits on > master in my public_html directory. > > Obviously it needs to be moved somewhere else. It will pr

Re: VA downtime

2000-09-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:24:38PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > VA.d.o will be having a full day worth of downtime while they move > offices. This is going to be this friday. > > I would like it very much if master.d.o could be configured to serve the > web site for that period. > > If someone

Re: People page

2000-09-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:12:21PM +0400, Max Kosmach wrote: > Hey people, take a look at > http://www.debian.org/devel/people.en.html > > strange __file__ and other strings in page I don't see it. BTW fix your Mail-Followup-To: header, it lacks the hostname. -- Digital Electronic Being Inten

Re: maintainer_contacts

2000-09-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 01:33:51PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Shouldn't we get rid of /intro/organization and change all links to it > to link to the much better /devel/maintainer_contacts ? That page is a > bit hard to find right now. The latter was supposed to merge in the former, but gecko never

Re: glimpse sucks.

2000-09-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:21:09PM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > > This is a showstopper, as we have 2 old and 2 new Chinese lists in the > > archive. :/ It would be very bastardish to leave those lists with Glimpse. > > Then again, I'm not sure Glimpse works fine with those lists, being so old, > >

Re: Any reason not to use PNG images in packaged HTML manuals?

2000-09-20 Thread Josip Rodin
[please reply only to -www] On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 02:53:41PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > Netscape doesn't support transparency as far as I can tell, but otherwise > is fine > > > For exmaple, even the Debian web site is still using Gifs instead > > of PNG format. > > Someone should poss

Re: Any reason not to use PNG images in packaged HTML manuals?

2000-09-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 03:37:54PM +0100, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > The corners of the buttons in the navigation bar are transparent; > > although I guess we could just make that part match the background > > color and make the images PNGs. > > Hmm, converting them is slightly more complicated

Re: translation-check.wml

2000-09-20 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 07:15:46PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > I have added the following patch to my working copy of Makefile.common and > converted all wml files to the new method using the following command line > > cd polish; perl -np -i.bak -e 's//#use > wml::debian::translation-check tra

Re: Debian in Yugoslavia

2000-09-22 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 01:52:22PM +0200, Tanovic Branko wrote: > we would like to voluntary by translating Debian to Serbian language and > make a Debian website on serbian language it would be nice if you can > provides with the webspace What Branko is trying to say is that he wants webwml/serbi

Re: FWD: Re: A few comments on recent changes; ATTN: translators, DWN

2000-09-23 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 11:29:01PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: > AFAICT there is no solution with current templates, because you want > $(title) to contain some Perl commands, but in wml::debian::template > $(title) is used inside ePerl commands, whereas it is used outside in > wml::debian::basic.

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