Re: Problems about Apps/Template and Projects/Template

[Bastian Ilso <hougaard junior gmail com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:57 , Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:

* Last, but not least, some projects don't follow the template. Closing

projects.gnome.org and moving the different web sites to the wiki was

meant to have more consistency and be able to edit the content more

easily and by more people. Christian didn't follow the template for

gnome-builder, to have something more appealing for the fundraiser. Then

other people have copied that. But the content is harder to edit, it

uses some advanced features of MoinMoin. And it is not consistent with

other projects pages.

Is it because the templates suck?

The application pages which don't follow https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Template follows https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/TemplateFancy (covered in https://blogs.gnome.org/bastian/2015/05/26/a-pretty-app-wiki-template/).

The apps that have transitioned to this template wanted to have something more appealing. IMO it would be nice if we completely transitioned to it, but I'm hesistant of enforcing consistency until we solve the ease-of-editing problem.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 9:54 , Alexandre Franke <alexandre franke gmail com> wrote:

Before we think about switching to anything, maybe we should take some

time to formalize what we're looking for?

I wrote to Andrea Veri and Thomas Waldmann about a possible GSoC project around implementing support for creating "template layouts" into MoinMoin so that fx maintainers can build an appealing app page without too much hassle.

I'm imagining something like being able to define additional CSS for certain types of pages which would apply the layout that we wish to use. I could try to do some mockups to make things more concrete.

On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 10:39 , Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org> wrote:

MoinMoin does not bother me. With time I got used to its syntax.

Agree, syntax is not a problem for me, just the inability to create nicer layout than what's globally used everywhere on the wiki.