Re: Reorganisation of www.debian.org: Please provide information about your Blend
Hi folks,
this was a real question and should be answered if Debian Jr.
should be published on future web pages.
It makes no sense if I answer here since I'm not actively working
on this cute project ... even if I'd love if this would be continued.
Kind regards
Andreas.
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 03:48:41AM +0200, 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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