Re: A starting proposal for library.gnome.org

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hey,

> > I may be going to far. Jeff and Glynn may explain the plan better than
> >
> >this.  Glynn is out to overhaul d.g.o, tossing out the cruft and
> >consolidating the remaining.  Jeff wants to tightly focus d.g.o on the
> >gnome developer community, and move the documents to library.gnome.org.
> >d.g.o's content could be merged with w.g.o in the future.

Yeah, I guess what I'd like to do is refresh the developer content. We
have a lot of old GNOME 1.4 based articles/tutorials/.. online which
really isn't all that useful to very many people, purely only for
historical value.

This is bad, and certainly not helping our goal to get more people
working on GNOME.

So, the idea of library.gnome.org is to consolidate information between
all the sites, and have www.gnome.org, developer.gnome.org,
foundation.gnome.org and guadec.gnome.org be 'shell' websites around
this central repository. Easy navigation and a full content search is
pretty much essential. I think by having this sort of setup, the shell
websites get much easier to maintain, and probably more structured on a
more permanent set of user friendly links like 

	http://www.gnome.org/press/releases

where library might be something slightly less intuitive like 

	http://library.gnome.org/marketing/2003/press-releases/guadec.html

Probably not a great example though.

> This was more of a general question of how many changes can you make to 
> a document before it needs a new name/URL, rather than just replacing 
> the old revision.  It is probably a good idea to have a policy about 
> this for various parts of the website.

Yeah, we'd totally have to figure this stuff out, although I don't have
any concrete suggestions right now :/

Glynn