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Bug#622274: marked as done (blends linked from the main debian page)

Your message dated Sun, 24 Jan 2016 14:42:11 +0000
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and subject line Debian Pure Blends on www.debian.org
has caused the Debian Bug report #622274,
regarding blends linked from the main debian page
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Package: www.debian.org

Dear -www team,
  I hereby forward to the BTS an excerpt of an ongoing discussion on
-project, which revamps a former proposal by Yaroslav Halchenko to
include links to blends from the Debian homepage.

Thanks in advance for considering,
Cheers.


On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:24:26AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > I like a lot the idea of providing links to blends from the Debian
> > homepage [1], thanks for proposing (and revamping) the idea!  However,
> > from the above paragraph I do not understand what you needed to
> > generalize and why it is blocking the implementation of the proposal.
> > Can you be more specific about that?
> 
> Well, you can find the original proposal at
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-www/2010/07/msg00048.html
> Message-id: <20100712150430.GA30080@onerussian.com>
> 
> in which I suggested to change the welcoming sentence to
> 
>  Debian GNU/Linux provides more than a pure OS: it comes with thousands
>  of ready to be installed packages[LINK].  Debian is as a great OS for
>  Juniors [Debian-Junior] as for the scientists [Debian-Science].
>  Debian has being used in Medicine [Debian-Med] and to help
>  people with disabilities [Accessibility].  But there is even more of
>  Debian -- see other "blends" [Blends], "Ports" [Ports page], and
>  packages [LINK].
> 
> which should be the first step.
> 
> 2nd step was to utilize our space Debian banner on  http://www.debian.org/ and
> populate it with logo icons to specific most popular and ports  and make it
> imagemap with clickable links so they could become active (may be grow
> and shine a bit in stars fashion) upon "over".  But I haven't got chance
> to stretch my limited design skills to come up with a mockup which I would have
> been what I meant by "generalize"... sorry for not clear description.
> 
> Additionally, we could come up with "(Weekly) Featured Debian Project" entry,
> which would provide a 1-2 sentences description + link to some Debian
> subproject chosen randomly (or not so), and placed somewhere high (may be even
> right after the banner) on the main page.
>  
> > I guess one of the problems that needs to be solved is to find place on
> > www.d.o without turning that page into a link hell. Have you discussed
> > the idea with the -www team and/or submitted a bug report against
> > www.d.o about it?
> 
> links itself are not bad (wiki were found useful to be that way).  Bad is the
> dump of lists of links.  If links are harmonic parts of sentences or images, I
> think they are only useful. 

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Hi All,

Debian Pure Blends are now linked from Debian's homepage (once the site
rebuilds). The landing page for Pure Blends is at:

  https://www.debian.org/blends/

I realise, looking at the bug log, that I said I would ping debian-project
before making this change, but I forgot to do this. If there is a
compelling reason to revert the change to the front page, then please do
ask me to revert the change or revert it yourself and we can discuss this
futher. Hopefully that won't be necessary.

Thanks,
Iain.

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