Re: Ports disappeared from www.debian.org?
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Josip Rodin wrote:
> It was under "Distribution", yeah. I don't quite see how this could fit
> under distribution because the meaning of the word distribution there is
> the act of distributing (and not as in a Linux distribution).
>
> (Before you complain, I didn't pick that confusing term for the section
> name.)
>
> I thought about adding it below Developers' Corner link, but some of the
> port pages are to be used by normal users, not only developers.
How about under either Support or Miscellaneous? I like Support better,
since the port pages frequently provide information for people that are
thinking of installing Debian on a non-i386 architecture and, since they
are also usually like Hardware Compat lists, the port pages usually fall
under a support-like category (at least to me).
This reminds me, what ever happened to making the Debian pages generic and
putting i386-specific info into an i386 port page? I remember some intent
to do so over a year ago, but it never happened.
> Yes, though our port pages are in general somewhat suboptimal to be
> highlighted :| The introductory page deserves mention, of course, but not
> pages that have a "News" section from 1999, and those that are just generic
> stuff. <sigh>
True. I know that I need to keep up with the alpha pages quite a bit
more and I've found a few of the other port pages to be less than helpful
when I looked for more info. I keep meaning to file bugs against those or
at least notify some of the arch contacts, but haven't gotten to it yet.
C
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