From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 28 6:58:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F013D37B87E; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 06:58:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA00467; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:27:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA01681; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:50:54 GMT (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 14:50:54 +0000 From: Nik Clayton To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Nik Clayton , doc@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org, dgl@bsdi.com, jim@cdrom.com, papowell@astart.com, wpaul@FreeBSD.org, ceren@magnesium.net, ryan@ryan.net, murray@bsdi.com Subject: Re: The website Message-ID: <20000627145054.N1582@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20000625200029.I470@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> <17146.962016763@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Organization: FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:52:43PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > Go For It! Thanks. But I stress that I want to see others "going for it" as well. The past few posts from me have outlined what I think needs to be done on the doc. project. This is not the same thing as what I, personally, can accomplish on the doc. project -- certainly not unless someone wants to fund me to do it, and even then I have existing and up-coming commitments that make this sort of tricky. If you (generic "you") have read anything here and think "I could do that" or "I was looking for a way to contribute" or even "I'm a CS student and need to do a project in order to graduate, that looks interesting" then say so. > A few comments: > > * Database driven content is OK, as long as it is not the main page, > currently our cvs-web and search engines work OK in the overall > mirror strategy. Depends. If we rely on database content for the majority of the site then we may as well not bother with mirrors. While this is tempting, I don't think it's going to be possible to put www.freebsd.org anywhere that's sufficiently well connected that the rest of the planet can get to it without worrying about latency or downtime. > * Other topic for dynamic content: supported hardware. Already covered. See my messages to -doc and -current about this. However, while this would be dynamic, it would be generated when the web site is built periodically, rather than on the fly each time. > * Other topic for dynamic content: I would like if cvsweb somehow > could locate all files relevant to a specific commit, I know this > is somewhat difficult but It would be nice anyway. Don't know if CVS can even do this. Joe K had a prototype implementation that does this, but as I recall it needed a backend database and took a few hours to index the source tree. > * Other topic for dynamic content: HTML'ed page with the last 24h > of commit logs, ie: pointers into cvsweb to see the diffs. Code contributions to do this welcome. > * Other topic for dynamic content: A place to keep track of patchsets > up for review, test and comment. Ie: submitter provides patch and > comments and a page is created, linked to from the patchindex and > it is added to the "new or updated" patches. submitter can update > patch as it develops. One way would be to define a convention like: > $HOME/review/$patchname/{README,*} Yep, like it. Anyone want to develop this further? N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message