Re: Fixing the GNOME website short term vs long term

[Christian Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

Great,
As I mentioned in the reply to Steve, try contacting either Joakim,
Elliot or Martin to get the proper rights to do this. If some
decision/permission needs to be formally aquired from the GNOME board
they can probably set that in action too.

Christian

On 08 Jul 2001 09:03:14 -0700, Joshua Eichorn wrote:
> 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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