Re: GO Website

[Mark Gilbert <markgilbert hotpop com>]

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 19:27, Marc Maurer wrote:
> Hi there GO-Hackers,
> 
> The current GO-site is really really starting to irritate me (no,
> really). So, I just got myself a gnome-cvs account, and I'm planing on
> updating it myself (if no-one objects that is).
> 

And by "myself", for those who weren't involved and are probably going
"what the...", he means himself with the help of ryan, trelane (for
gnumeric stuff if needed), charlieg (in his sparse moments of free
time), and me (in my sparse moments of free time, but not really).

> Plan of action: I'll set up a site on my own server first, and when
> everyone kinda-approves, I'll commit it.
> 

Or preferably, when most of the patch-sending people approve.  Any
patch-sending people still get to send patches, that's what cvs is all
about (we've had this talk much on irc, just summing it up for the
list).

> Point of discussion (and we should keep this really really really
> short): which site to take? I can fill in content, but I terribly suck
> at html/css/whatever.

No which site.  Establish what's good about everything that's been
proposed, establish what's not so good about everything that's been
proposed, establish what needs to be addressed which hasnt been by any
proposed, and commit the best permutation of all available options,
including those that haven't been brought up yet as time permits.

Trying to pick a single proposed site is the exact opposite of how to
get this done, and in cvs.  That implies relying on a single person,
who's presumably mortal and doesn't have control over life's little
twists.  You can see how far that's gotten us (noone's fault, just an
unfortunate situation).

Rather than trying to make everybody happy and establish The Site In
It's Immutable Glory in one fell swoop, let's focus on getting real,
tangible material in cvs.  Doesn't even have to be 'public' (in the
sense of where Uraeus' site is now), just there for everybody to work
with.

> Any proposals?

Er, see above.

Regards
-MG