* From: David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 20:15:08 -0400 > > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 08:00:17PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: >> On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:53:30PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote: >> > The only thing I've ever heard about helping out with the website is that >> > it's a herculean task that no mere mortal should attempt. >> >> Where did you hear this? > > Word of mouth, usually in conjunction with promises that the site would be > updated to not look like it came from the 90's and no visible improvements > in that area. I'd heard about meetings at debconf/debcamps to work on this, > and yet the site still looks almost identical to the way it did when I > first downloaded Debian back in 1999.
Sure it is, and will be for me. [] >> What's next in this fine line of reasoning, I wonder? It doesn't have >> a MS Windows GUI that my granny thinks is trivial, therefore it sucks? > > I don't consider my job in Debian to maintain the website. I consider my > job to help maintain X. I've taken it upon myself to work on the XSF wiki > pages because it's useful and important, but it's clearly a secondary > concern to actually working on the software. Given this, anything that > makes the job easier and more trivial so I can focus on what I consider to > be important is a very valid reason. As lynx user to mutt user, i want to say: "Thank you very much!" ;) > I think that any tool that lets us do this should be considered. Debian > isn't in the website creating business, we're in the Free Software > Distribution creating business. If a tool, like a wiki, makes it > substantially easier for us to go about that business then yes, I think we > should use it. I second this. ____ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]