Re: Release notes and wgo revamp

["Quim Gil" <quimgil gmail com>]

Be careful, GNOME Products are managed with a specific tool: the
software center.

Thanks for going ahead. At least Ramon will assist you with technical
issuees. I will work on wgo stuff on evenings. Till then.

Quim

On 2/4/07, Diego Escalante <dieguito gmail com> wrote:
> <Snarf>
>
> On 2/3/07, Quim Gil <quimgil gmail com> wrote:
> > There is a lot of work to do and we don't seem to progress much (or at
> > least not as much as we need to deliver something good by March 14th)
> >
> > We need to be clever reciclyng as much work as possible. Here is a
> > proposal to have something ready that is better than the current
> > website and is also easily extensible to continue working on the 15th
> > onwards.
> >
> Silly as it might sound, I discovered that if you select, copy and
> paste the text of any gnome.org/project/ page into the HTML editor of
> Plone, it will be copied with the images embedded. I wasn't able to
> insert images other way.
>
> Also the option to use only a textarea instead of the HTML editor is
> broken since I got a textarea of 10x300 (or something very tall).
>
> > - We need release notes. Since they need to be translated to nn
> > languages and there is no plan for i18n in the current release, let's
> > keep them in the CVS/SVN as usual. However, we can keep them simple
> > and create part of their content as GNOME Products pages, at least for
> > the new modules included:
> >
> >  devtools suite
> >  seahorse
> >  nm-applet
> >  devhelp
> I bootstrapped the devhelp page, I can't upload images -don't know
> why- via the html editor so I limited myself to only text.
>
> >  glade3
> >
> > - We need content for the home. The spash will be the 2.18 splash. The
> > product promoted can be glade3, let's concentrate efforts in this
> > product page, getting help of their maintainers. If we have more
> > rocking product pages we can introduce the random rotation of promoted
> > products, if not Glade3 will do to start with. The rest are feeds
> > coming from gnomedesktop.org & planet or static texts easy to put up.
> >
> > Let's have a look to the sections:
> >
> > - http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/WgoTakeTheTour
> > Panos, are you still available to help with the graphics? If there is
> > a designer I will provide texts for a whole tour. If not I will draft
> > a single page, to be expanded, linking to a screenshots gallery at
> > art,gnome.org and whatever reference pages we come up with.
> >
> I added some initial text to Simply Powerful Desktop, Multilingual and
> Shipped by.
> May I suggest we use a little logo of each distribution in the Shipped
> by page? I assume we would like to ask for permission of some of them
> (I only know about Debian's policy).
>
> > - http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/GnomeProducts
> > Let's compromise ourselves to the 5 new modules mentioned above and
> > let's make a call to the teams to create themselves the product page
> > of their GNOME projects. We will help to those answering the call and
> > uploading content. We won chase anybody.
> I control-copied a part of EoG page and 2 sections of Epiphany site.
> Please note the _control-copied_.
>
> > - http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CaseStudies (Success Stories)
> > Let's make a call for stories and let's provide the tool for people to
> > publish them. And let's ask the GNOME Journal team if they have
> > stories to be re-published there (if this makes sense to them). If we
> > get enough good material we will publish the section, If not we will
> > take it out completely until it is worth publishing.
> >
> We need to find someone with a good story. I don't have one :(.
>
> > - http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/WgoGetStarted
> > If Joachim or someone can write the 7 pages planned, great, If not we
> > will start with one, to be expanded.
> >
> > - http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/WgoGetInvolved
> > Same.
> >
> > - http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/WgoAbout
> > Same.
> >
> > One very useful exercise. Can someone go through the current gnome.org
> > and see which pages or excerpts can be mostly reused? We can create
> > new pages with them according to the currently planned structure - and
> > polish/improve them afterward.  Thomas did this very useful map in
> > order to track the existing pages:
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/CurrentWgoStructure
> >
> > Does this plan make sense? Ideas?
> >
> Makes sense in my opinion.
>
>
> Diego
>
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