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On 13.06.2014 05:14, Paul Wise wrote:
Thanks! I will have a look how it works - if I have any question, I come back to you ;-)On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 19:01 +0200, Silvia Frank wrote:On 11.06.2014 05:57, Paul Wise wrote:Please login to alioth and click the request to join on this page, I'll approve the request. https://alioth.debian.org/projects/publicityDone.Accepted, you can now commit to the publicity SVN repository :) I think I will start writing a brief article on the debian deployment running at Spotify. I will send a first draft when ready.I noticed that Spotify isn't on the list of users. I tried to contact them about this back in March but got no response. If you have special contact with Spotify, could you ask them to follow these instructions? At the same time it would be great if they sponsored DebConf14 :) Andreas from Debian, who worked at Spotify, recommended me to get in touch with Noa Resare, who is the Open Source affiliate at Spotify. I wrote him an Email with the questions for the user article some days ago and here is his reply: -------- Original Message --------
I'm afraid I have some bad news about that. A while
back we decided to move onto Ubuntu for our backend server
deployment. The main reasons for this was a predictable release
cycle and long term support by upstream (this decision was made
before the announcement that the Debian project commits to long
term support as well.) With the release of the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS we
are now in the process of migrating our ~5000 servers to that
distribution.
Sorry.
/noa
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So I will look now for other interesting Debian deployments and come back to this :-). If anybody has an idea (or even better a contact to ;-)) of Debian users, who wouldn't mind to be listed on the Debian website, I am glad to hear! Ah ok, this makes even small changes intricate. So maybe for the first it is the easiest to put at the start site a link "Debian deployments" or "Debain users" which goes to:https://www.debian.org/users/#submissions http://debconf14.debconf.org/become-sponsor.xhtmlOh great, I never notice this page on the Debian website until now. Maybe we could make a link from the frontpage to the "user site"? Is it possible to highlight the freshest or outstanding deployments, e.g. in a box at the right side beside the list? The list of deployments is very long and some of the entries seem very old, and I think visitors are more motivated to click, if they can see, which are the latest.Highlighting the user testimonials on the front page sounds like an interesting idea. Unfortunately there is no machine-readable date information in users section of the webwml CVS repository, so the highlighting would need to be manual and we can't automatically sort by date until that is fixed. Probably the highlighting would need to be manual anyway? Could you make a mockup of how it might look? This topic should be discussed on the debian-www list anyways. https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/users/ https://www.debian.org/devel/website/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-www/ https://www.debian.org/users/ . The link could be in the first column of links: About Social Contract Code of Conduct Free Software Partners Users Donations Contact UsAnd on https://www.debian.org/users/ we integrate at the right side a simple box, where we put in newest and outstanding deployments. Attached you find a very simple (pdf/ libre office-)draft, how it could look (I am not sure, if that's the way how you use to do it - is there any "collaboration tool" at Debian project, where you can visualize your ideas?). The background colour of the box should be the same blue as on top of the side behind the Debian logo. I also shorten a bit the intro (also because the entries are not listed alphabetically :-) - what do you think? I know a lot of time has been spent on the website over the years. But anyway, I think in a longterm perspective it would make a lot of things much easier and faster (and "up-to-date-looking" ;-)), if the Debian website would be based on a CMS like Typo3 or Drupal. Maybe we should give this a thought ;-)? So shall I copy our discussion about this stuff to the debian-www list and we continue there? Cheers, Silvia. |
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