Re: Moving to live.gnome.org - participate!

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 18:07 +0100, Wolfgang Stoeggl wrote:
> --- Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk> schrieb:
>
> > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 08:34 +0100, Lars Clausen
> > wrote:
> > > I'm getting very tired of the cumbersome way the
> > current web page is
> > > updated (checking out all of the www.gnome.org
> > webpages???), so upon
> > > discovery of the live.gnome.org Wiki, I have begun
> > a transition to have
> > > our homepage entirely there.  I have moved the
> > front page, the rest of
> > > the pages remain to be moved -- if anyone wants to
> > give a hand, that
> > > would be appreciated.
> >
> > I probably should elaborate a bit.  It doesn't take
> > any other tools than
> > a browser to transfer the old pages. You'll just
> > need to create an
> > account on http://live.gnome.org/UserPreferences,
> > and then you can login
> > and start editing pages right in the browser.  The
> > Wiki formatting used
> > is simple and described in the page and more
> > extensively behind links. 
> >
> > I'd prefer if we at first transfer the pages pretty
> > much as they are,
> > just updating to use Wiki formatting where possible.
> >  Beware that while
> > the GUI mode can be helpful, it sometimes thinks it
> > can do more than is
> > actually possible with the Wiki syntax.  The
> > DiaDocumentation pages
> > should serve as an example of how to transfer a page
> > -- we don't need to
> > keep the exact formatting, but all of the text and
> > links in a readable
> > manner should be retained, even if somewhat
> > outdated.  We can update
> > them later.
> >
> > There are links at the bottom of the Wiki pages to
> > empty pages
> > corresponding to the pages on the old site
> > (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia).  If you've been
> > wanting to do
> > something for Dia, or just on a lark want to help,
> > feel free to go in
> > and Wiki!
> >
> > -Lars
>
> Good idea to start this Wiki.
> However, widespread Wiki vandalism should be prevented
> somehow.
> The sooner the better...

Probably.  So far I have a watch on all Dia pages, so I've been happily
seeing how you, branko and Steffen have added most of the old content.
If anybody feels left out of the Wiki goodness, we're still missing the
Screenshots, Python and Examples sections (all fairly simple sections),
as well as almost all of the FAQ (which is slightly more complex).

For those who delight in the bleeding edge, I have just done a major
overhaul of the text handling code (the one behind the in-diagram
editable texts), doing away with some too-early optimizations,
encapsulating lots, and paving the way for using the new textline object
internally.  All this might have caused bugs, I haven't seen anything
unusual (apart from the cursor actually being placed right:) before I
committed, but banging a bit on tonights anoncvs would be welcome.

-Lars