On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:12:24PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > What would be even cooler: The user has a form, where he can specify wher > the shipment goes to (you may add your sorting by locale idea here), and > chooses which architecure and which kind of medium he would like to have > (and perhaps checkboxes for "not together with non-free", "only official > CDs, no vendor releases" or perhaps even "only pressed nothing burned").
You could _fully_automatically_ restrict the results to the country that the visitor comes from, by using geoip. :) However, you'll run into trouble setting this up on the Debian servers, where you cannot install a script just like that... IMHO, it's a good idea to first fix the more pressing issue of eliminating stale entries, and keep the static pages for the time being. > Currently we don't have all the data available for that; some vendors > sell for example alpha and ia-64 on CD, but i386 only on DVD. And for > some vendors Debian got to big: They sell parts of the officla disc sets. I think the DVD-related info is wrong for many entries: Lots of vendors sell DVDs but this is not listed. > > Second, the Debian CD page should be automatically downloaded. If the > > current distribution cannot be found (e.g. the string "3.1 rev2" does not > > occur), then also remove them from the listing after some time. > > > > ...or something like that. Unfortunately, it is a bit difficult to set this > > up as part of the regular build of the www pages. > > It's even more difficult: Some have 3.1r0 DVDs and add upgrade CDs > later. 3.1r0+upgrade should be listed as 3.1r2 (or whatever is applicable as the result of the upgrade) on our page. > Checking for specific srings on the website could become very > complicate, since there are to many of them. Oh, IMHO that's not a problem: We have a certain power because an entry on our page means real cash for vendors. So we can just demand: "Put that string on your web page or we will not list you." People will get this idea pretty quickly... ;-) Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC 8883 54F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]