Speaking as a member of the webteam... You're welcome to submit the rewrites. There are instructions on the site for downloading the webpages in source (*.wml, not *.html) form. In particular... Following changes can be a time consuming process (ask the people who do the Debian Weekly News) and not many people have the time to do that. So we get some compromise... The "News" section is generated (not "written") from the news articles in http://www.debian.org/News/ The News articles come from postings by the press team (press@debian.org) to debian-announce or debian-news. By having a formula like that, it's easy for someone to know what's expected of them when they volunteer to work that section. They have to 1) follow the mentioned lists and 2) reformat all the posts into the *.wml format. It could almost be automated. If someone has the time to filter though everything else that's going on and be the "reporter" for the project (and not duplicate the work of the DWN), they have not volunteered. On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 11:47:36AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Following is a proposal on what to emphasize on the FIRST page: > > 1. Rewrite the Getting Started section, e.g. inform about the large > number of architectures and packages supported. This surely > attracts new users. > 2. Something on apt-get, and upgrading from the web. > 3. Rewrite the News section, e.g. add links to recent packages > available, with highlights, updated frequently. > 4. In addition to the Weekly News link, add more frequent updates to > the News section. Surely, by following the excellent mailing lists, > you realize much more is happening than what is reported on the > first page. > > PS: > On the wish list for the distribution I would like to add an smp > kernel. Other distributions have. Today this has to be made manually, > even if excellent tools are available for this. > > Best regards, > Svante Signell > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * Debian: Software in the Public Interest: * * Project Secretary Treasurer * * Webmaster Team * * BTS Team siteROCK: * * Lintian Team Linux Infrastructure Engineer *
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