Fixing the GNOME website short term vs long term

[Christian Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

Hi,
Seeing as activity here has seemingly grinded to a halt I thought I
should try sending of a mail with some suggestions.

I have been working lately on trying to fix some of the worst problems
of the current GNOME site and have among other things moved all the
remaining sites from canvas.gnome.org over to www.gnome.org. This
includes websites like gnome-basic, gnome-pilot, guppi and midnight
commander. 

Still there are a lot of things needing doing on the website which I
don't think should wait until we have a new design ready and
implemented.  Most important and which I hope someone here on this list
is willing to do is replacing the GNOME software map with something
usefull. The current setup has some severe weaknesses like no good way
to delete bad entries for instance. 

Another things which gets requested to the GNOME webmaster list time and
time again is website searching. So if someone here is willing to set up
some kind of search engine for the site then that would be great.

Guess making such suggestions a day before leaving on a 14 day vacation
us stupid, but if anyone here are willing to tackle these tasks which I
consider rather critical for the GNOME website I am sure that you can
get Joakim to get you set up with the needed accesses etc.

Christian

BTW. Also in order to get the new website going, may I suggest that a
CVS module is created and a webserver started on another port (or maybe
just use canvas.) That way anyone interested in contributing code to
implement the new design can just start commiting to CVS and when we
feel the new design is ready for primetime we can start moving it over.