On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 01:09:32PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> Remove their Derivatives/Census/ page if it exists (a thought for the >> future). > > Yeah, although this my turn out to be a bit more complicate, in the > sense that we need to decide how often synchronize the wiki page with > the www.d.o page. Keeping the wiki page make sense as it makes very easy > for derivatives to declare themselves, but we need to ensure that > periodically we sync with the static list. Any idea about how to do > that? (I'm totally fine with you doing that, but having a mechanism that > help in forgetting doing this would be nice. E.g.: a periodic report on > this list of which new distros have been added to the wiki and the > "diff" with the website.)
I'm personally following the wiki RecentChanges RSS feed so I see almost all wiki updates. If anyone else wants to help do this they could subscribe to Derivatives/Census/.* and get emails whenever a page is added there. With some filtering it should be possible to get just notifications of new pages. >> Not sure how to decide if the link gets added or not. > > Uhm, I'm not sure I understand this: is your doubt how to decide whether > a distro is "dead" or not? In that case, I believe many distros are > "clearly" dead (e.g. gone website, no release for the past 5 years, > etc.). A conservative rule could be that we consider them dead as long > as there is no doubt that they are not. I wasn't really thinking about it distro deadness level being unclear (that is a good point though) but more about if we keep every little dead livecd distro or just prominent distros. Maybe we should just apply an "external link" rule; if there is an external link (at distrowatch/wikipedia or a homepage that states the project has finished), then add the link otherwise leave it out. >> Any thoughts? > > A comment I advanced some times ago to the -www team about that and > similarly structured pages (e.g. the partners page) was to reorganize > them with per-entry pages, having the main page which is just an index, > but an index with (equally-sized) logos of each distro. The rationale is > that distros tend to be clearly identified by logos, and having them in > the index makes easy for users of those distro to realize "hey, this is > my distro". I'm not sure whether it would make sense or not to have the > index page point to the wiki entries of the census; this question is > related to the work-flow between www.d.o <-> wiki.d.o above. I think it makes sense to have a small amount of info in addition to the logo on the index page and more detailed information on a sub-page or external site. If the info was removed, having to click every logo to find out what all of these derivatives are about could get annoying. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/AANLkTi=as-SUt85RFdTgfYEHKx2PgLGJfkH9F1=oy...@mail.gmail.com