Re: related websites and links

[Fred Kiefer]

> Am 14.08.2021 um 18:38 schrieb Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it>:
> 
> 
> checking some of our pages, I found some "cruft" and I'd like your opinions 
> on it and "actions".
> 
> 1) http://www.gnustep.it/
> 
> A top-level domain which is stuck in the past - I wonder if it is of Nicola 
> and who maintains it?It is not in Italian at all!

What a great page! It is like a time machine back to the good old GNUstep from 
early 2000.  


> It contains obsolete information (e.g.Workspace pages 
> http://www.gnustep.it/enrico/gworkspace/ which are totally old and which I 
> completely replaced with http://www.gnustep.org/experience/GWorkspace.html )
> 
> Obsolete tutorial http://www.gnustep.it/pierre-yves/index.html which I 
> completely updated and redid here:
> 
> 
> JIGS - does it still exist? works? should i become part of the main 
> development pages?

As far as I know still still exists and gets used at Brainstorm, or what ever 
they are called now. It should be documented on our main web page.

> Renaissance: it is part of GNUstep and has its repository on GIT, shouldn't 
> we integrate it in the main website ?

Yes, this too, please. 


> Main website:
> 
> We should agree on where to report bugs (savannah or GIT) and choose what to 
> do with "bugs.gnustep.org" and then update accordingly. I know Greg's 
> position on it, but I'd like to raise the discussion on this again.
> 
> 
> Related projects: are these still alive? does it make sense to link and 
> sponsor them? I just checked on gnustep.org as well as on gap.nongnu.org
> 
> * www.etoile-project.org we still sponsor it high, but it is almost a dead 
> collection? At least the website is so; should we still sponsor it so 
> prominently?

We should still link to it, but maybe not that prominently.

> * http://www.nongnu.org/backbone/ - latest commit I see is 4 years old

That is not that long ago :-)
> 
> * http://interfacewm.sourceforge.net/ seems total retrocomputing :)
> 
> * ImageApps still points to https://home.gna.org/gsimageapps/ what happened 
> to them ?
> 
> * http://www.collaboration-world.com/cgi-bin/error.cgi?id=1  goes on error, 
> but the domain is half there, should we hide it in favour of gnustep-nonfsf ?
> 
> * Advogato - it is dead now... so we should kill links to it
> 
> * http://fortytwo.sourceforge.net/ didn't even know we had this project, tell 
> me about it!!!

Never heard about that either. (Or at least I don’t remember)