Re: Reorganisation of www.debian.org: Please provide information about your Blend
Hi Thomas,
this is to confirm that we want to keep listed on the blends web site.
Cheers
Ole
On 22.07.19 03:48, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Blends developers
>
> today I sat together with some people who intend to update Debian web
> pages. On one hand they care about design they also care about content
> and structure of content. The structure should be unified and the
> content should be updated by not only provide up to date information but
> also by deleting stuff that is irrelevant.
>
> It turned out that for some Blends the information is recent and well
> maintained, some Blends care not much about their documentation but are
> active otherwise (shame on me that I consider Debian Med in this
> category) and some Blends were either never really active or are not
> active any more. The people who are working on new web pages want to
> provide current information and thus want remove the last category
> which I will refer to as "inactive" below. (If you are actually
> consider yourself inactive or do not know what I'm writing about you
> could stop reading here in principle since any response is only
> expected from active Blends.)
>
> To find out what Blend should be considered as active I proposed to
> write this e-mail to the main communication channel and ask the
> developers of the Blend to confirm they consider themselves an active
> Blend and will provide more content about that Blend to the web team if
> requested to do so.
>
> This mail goes to the mailing list of all those Blends that are listed
> under
>
> http://www.debian.org/blends [1]
>
> as well as those projects that are featuring metapackage code in Git
> and have a mailing list or only a private mail address since no
> mailing list existed or the mailing list vanished by the shutdown
> of alioth since nobody cared about the migration (if those single
> maintainers do not know what this mail is about they certainly fall
> under the category "inactive" and do not need respond anyway.)
>
> So please every Blend team that wants to be listed on [1]
> in future please write an e-mail to
>
> Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>
>
> confirming that this Blend is active and wants to be represented
> on the official Debian Web site. We actually want to unify the
> presentation of Blends and you should name a default entry page
> for your Blend. Currently we have some very positive examples
> like
>
> Debian Astro: https://blends.debian.org/astro/
> Debian Edu: https://blends.debian.org/edu/
>
> We also have the "care not so much about documentation ones"
>
> Debian Med: https://blends.debian.org/med/
> Debian Games: https://blends.debian.org/games/
> or even worse
> Debian Junior: https://blends.debian.org/junior/
>
> ones and those who simply maintain just a Wiki page. Once you confirmed
> that your Blend is active you should probably start working on this -
> possibly by discussing some common standard for the Blends entry page on
> the general Blends list (debian-blends@lists.debian.org)
>
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