Re: Website Updates

[Bill Denney]

I like the ideas that people have had about moving the projects to some 
other place.  I think that they need to be cut down to size in place 
before they can be moved.  I've worked on it a bit, and I've cut it down 
some.  Can someone else help me out by looking over the page and cutting 
things that they know have already been fixed?

This is one of those times that many eyes make problems shallow because as 
everyone reads over the list, things that have been done can be removed 
and things that have not been done, but are simple, can be completed and 
removed.

An updated version of the projects page is at 
http://denney.homeip.net/octave/projects.html .  If you'd like to help 
more than just telling me what can be removed, it would be nicer to 
receive diffs from http://denney.homeip.net/octave/projects.in (it's 
almost identical to the html, but it uses macros to generate the header 
and footer).

Bill

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, David Bateman wrote:

> Bill Denney wrote:
>
> > Second, I'd like to update the projects page 
> > (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/projects.html).  This was autogenerated 
> > from projects.texi apparently, so the place to start with this would be 
> > finding then cleaning up projects.texi.  If it does not exist (I couldn't 
> > find it by searching the CVS of the website or the source), then I'd like 
> > to start to clean up what's there and update it.
>
>
> The PROJECTS file is part of all octave distributes and is in the root 
> directory. There are a large number of things that should probably be dropped 
> from the file though, either since they are resolve or perhaps no longer 
> relevant.
>
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Quentin Spencer wrote:
>
> > I wonder if the projects page shouldn't also be part of a wiki, so it can 
> > be readily updated by the various individuals involved in the projects. 
> > I've been thinking that maybe the best solution is tighter integration 
> > between the top level octave pages and the wiki, where a few top-level web 
> > pages are static html, but some of the links go to pages on the wiki, which 
> > a similar look and feel. For example, the official web site for the Fedora 
> > linux distribution, fedoraproject.org is entirely maintained as a wiki. 
> > Users are required to sign on with a username and password to edit it. This 
> > would require some coordination and some changes in how the wiki is 
> > currently managed, but in the long run, this would hopefully make it 
> > possible to make the information more up to date.
>
>
> I believe the PROJECTS file should be split-up and placed in an issue 
> tracking system rather than be part of a webpage. If the CVS ever migrates to 
> SVN then something like tracs should probably be installed to handle this. In 
> fact I think tracs has a wiki interface as well..
>
> D.
>
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