Organize Debian mail lists page, please, thanks :) ;jor
I sent the below to the suggested responsible email, listarchives@debian.org, but got no reply. On the debian-user list, where i cc'd the message, someone pointed me to this list, which i'm not subscribed too. I see one doesn't have to be subscribed to post here.
Anyone here interested in improving the web info about mailing lists??
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Hi - thanks for your work on the debian mailing lists. :)
I include some notes here about several improvements to the debian
website, regarding mailing lists. They 1) communicate more quickly the
_most imortant_ information, & 2) enable people to find the relevant
information more quickly.
== 1) Proper intro text
On
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
the introduction text should have a link changed: Keep the text the
same, but:
"Introduction
Debian GNU/Linux is developed through distributed development all around
the world. Therefore, e-mail is the preferred way to discuss various
items. Much of the conversation between Debian developers and users is
managed through several mailing lists."
That is all fine, but the link behind the last words should be to
http://lists.debian.org/
Not to "http://foldoc.org/mailing+list";, as it is now.
1b) Actually, that page is rather outdated, describing about email re 1999 or before - people don't need that info today. eh, cruft. Maybe someone could update it.
== 2) Mail lists page should also list all the lists, grouped.
The page:
http://lists.debian.org/
has a great start - the grouping.
The important thing it is missing is a 2nd section, which would have
each group section, & a link to the main page of each list, within that
group.
Ex: for the "users" lists (& do this for each grouping), go to the
http://lists.debian.org/users.html
page, & extract all the list links, & put them on the lists.debian.org
page.
== 3) Better: put that info on all at the bottom of the main page about
lists:
Ie, put onto the page:
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/
all the info i described in part 2 above for the page:
http://lists.debian.org/
That would make a smaller # of pages to click through to find the proper
list. Ie,
1st: Main debain page, with a link to:
2nd: The lists page, which has the categorized list of all mailing
lists.
That would be a great, efficient design, help people find lists more
quickly, & thus help people be more efficient. :)
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Do you think you could get this done? Any idea the time frame? Thanks
:)
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