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Re: Reorganisation of www.debian.org: Please provide information about your Blend



 Hey there

I really hope this could be active in the near future. The thing is that
I don't know how to help more than just use this blend, but I got three
kids at home to test it!

Qobi


On 07/10/19 04:55, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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)
> > 
> > -- 
> > http://fam-tille.de
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> http://fam-tille.de
> 

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Qobi Ben Nun

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