Re: [Bug-gnubg] documentation: website ground rules

[Alef Rosenbaum]

> How is it going, Alef? Still studying php and mysql? I must say I like 
> your
> sketch for the webpage.

Achim and I have been communicating by email and phone about the 
homepage. We're going to use Drupal and some webspace of Achim's while 
it's under construction. Right now I'm still a bit stuck getting the 
encryption worked out on my Mac using GnuPG and ssh keys, sure I'll 
figure it out just need patience and perseverance...

> Sans serif  fonts look good, and I don't mind if it looks like the FIBS
> site.
>
> These are the categories I would like:
> About
> Downloads
>   Windows
>   Mac
>   Linux
>   Source
>   CVS
> Documentation
>   Manuals
>   FAQ
>   Tutorials
>   Tips and Tricks
> Screenshots
> Contact
>   Mailing list
>   Mailing list archive
> Links and resources
>   GNU Backgammon training program
>   How to compile gnubg for windows
>   Links to master games in .sgf
>   Other links
>
> (Maybe something about the bug tracker and bug reporing as well?)

That's a clear Table of Contents for us to begin with. Should there be 
a short News section at the top listing any important changes/updates 
in the past month? I'm thinking no more than a sentence or two 
reporting on the progress. Nice to have a little something there to 
encourage people to return to the site every so often.

> The main audience at this stage is backgammon players. By backgammon
> players I mean those who are familiar with the game backgammon and 
> play at
> a weekly club or in major tournaments or at a serious servers. I don't 
> like
> to exclude anyone that's not familiar with the game, but I don't think
> those should be in our main target audience. The target audience 
> should be
> players that wants to report bugs and contibute with feedback.

This is pretty much what I was assuming, it's good to have it clarified.

> The timescale question is not rediculous. The answer is that there's no
> timescale and no roadmap. Should we develop a timescale and a roadmap?

I have no previous experience of open source projects, but it seems to 
me that any timescale set would be fairly artificial and probably not 
affect the progress that much? Though I am curious if there's any 
ballpark figure for the release of version 1: six months, two years?

> I like clean and easy web pages. You can look at other simple 
> web-pages for
> other GNU projects that we can compare our own project to:
>
> http://www.gimp.org
> http://www.octave.org
> http://www.gnome.org (just redesigned!)
> http://www.gnupg.org
> http://lilypond.org/stable/
> http://gcc.gnu.org/
> http://www.texmacs.org/
> http://www.gtk.org
> http://www.r-project.org/
>
> Take a look at this pages, and you will see how other GNU project make
> their web sits. I guess you will get some kind of idea.
>
> -Øystein

Thanks, I'll have a good look through these sites.

Alef