Re: Misc www issues
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 10:40:13AM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * I just noticed that my home URL as listed on devel/people is far out
> of date - the one listed at db.d.o is less out of date, and I'll
> update this one. Aren't URLs and emails on this page updated from the
> DB ?
>
I'll implement this after I get back from holidays (the 28th).
> * The lists of packages on devel/people is a list of binary packages.
> It would me much more useful IMHO to have a list of source packages,
> with reference to the relevant source packages. Eg:
>
I'll consider this. It may be confusing in some cases.
> Also symlinks from packages to their http://packages.d.o/... URL would
> be nice - granted, the devel/people would be even larger, maybe it
> could be splitted alphabetically ?
>
The page is only intended to show who the developers are and what they
do. My biggest reason for not wanting to do this is simply that people
will keep asking for more things to be added until this simply becomes
another version of the Package pages.
> * In the same idea, it may be nice to have pages for pages for source
> packages on packages.d.o, with links to their binary ones. In this
> case, the list of binary packages can be dropped from my latter
> proposal, and maybe the size of devel/people will even be smaller than
> it is now :)
>
Will consider this.
> * It is quite common for a translated page to become out of date. I'm
> not quite familiar with how this is handled, but I suppose that
> translation teams get notified in some way. It would be nice for the
> reader too, to get a notification, such as a "This translation has not
> yet been updated to reflect changes in <a href="...en">the master
> page</a>, which you may want to check."
>
This only happens with some translations and it is the fault of the
translation team. There isn't much we can do about it, except threaten
to remove pages if they become too out of date.
--
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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