On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:09:32 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to make the descriptions on children-distros consistent, > suggested format: > > <p><a href="http://example.com";>example</a> is... one paragraph > overview of the goals and information about the distro</p> > <p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/Example";>More > info...</a></p> > > We should try to rewrite any descriptions given to us to make them > more clear and less like advertising. Seems reasonable, perhaps with an img tag next to the distro. > The Debian website mentions a lot of inactive Debian derivatives, > including some as long dead as Corel Linux or Progeny. > > I would suggest that for all distros that are dead, inactive or no > longer directly based on Debian we should: > > Remove their blurb from children-distros Yep. > Remove their Derivatives/Census/ page if it exists (a thought for the > future). I'd suggest leaving it in the wiki, but perhaps stick it on a 'silent projects' subpage, or subsection. > Maybe add a link to the distrowatch page in the section about inactive > distros. Not sure how to decide if the link gets added or not. If a project has no home page anymore, distrowatch might be the only place to follow it. (if distrowatch never caught it, do we really care to track it ourselves?) kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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