On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:37:01PM -0800, giovanni_re wrote: > 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. > > > == 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. :) > > == > Do you think you could get this done? Any idea the time frame? Thanks > :) >
I can't cut it! Thank you. I thought maybe I was missing something. :) (I'm never sure.) -- Kind Regards, Freeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org