Re: Usability review of debian.org?
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 10:31:42AM -0500, Jeff wrote:
> Is someone willing to do a little digging in the site logs? Can I do it?
> I would definitely want to know the statistical breakdown of which
> browsers are used to view the site, the percentages of different languages
> used and which pages are the most popular. Depending on how detailed we
> want to get it may start to be useful to look at (anonymized) individual
> sessions to track the path people take through the site, as well use
> patterns of the search engine.
I think some of this information can be obtained from webalizer reports,
which are at http://klecker.debian.org/webalizer/www.debian.org/
> How does the web group work with other groups such as the documentation
> team and the security team?
Well, we get along ;) What exactly do you want to know?
> The first thing that caught my attention was the layout of the main
> documentation page. How should that be handled?
The DDP, i.e. the debian-doc list, is primarily responsible for the /doc/ddp
web page, and most of the stuff that's linked from there.
The security team is supposedly responsible for the /security/ pages but in
fact they just supply the data and us web people make it into web pages (it
just so happens that a security officer is also a web editor so this usually
works perfectly). The stuff on the security.debian.org server is theirs,
too, we just link to it.
> When I write the report(s) should I make sure it gets copied to their
> mailing list?
Depends on what's the issue... Try to avoid mass cross posting, that tends
to become a mess. You might want to post to -www first so we can determine
what's for -www and what is not, and then you can post elsewhere.
> Is it a problem to give you an organized list of issues rather than
> individual bug reports?
We'll manage, as long as you organize the list properly :)
> One last question is perhaps the most difficult. I expect that the
> majority of things I suggest will be relatively easy to fix and primarily
> affect one page. However, I may end up suggesting things that change the
> menu structure or require some changes in already existing scripts. If I
> can make a good enough argument is the web team willing [to do] more
> difficult structural changes?
Yes.
BTW be sure to check the to-do list at /devel/website/todo.
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