Re: Fixing the GNOME website short term vs long term

[Joshua Eichorn <jeichorn JoshuaEichorn com>]

I could setup htdig if i had an account.

I don't know of any drop in replacements for the software map, but i 
could write a simple one in php if your in a hurry.

but i would like to start with just setting up a search engine.

-joshua eichorn
Christian Schaller wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
>
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