Liam, thanks for your comments, an additional note: this is actually NOT the old page as in theory whenever we'll have a new way of handling projects views the former (and to be considered old) website is going to be [1]. In 2013 we migrated several of those links to what projects.gnome.org is today and left projects-old un-maintained (individual maintainers were taking care of maintaining their own projects) which led to multiple of those links to become obsolete / historical (pre 2010) / not relevant anymore. Do you see any value in keeping those URLs around even if they're historical and not relevant since several years?
cheers, [1] https://projects.gnome.org Il giorno gio 6 dic 2018 alle ore 22:23 Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net> ha scritto: > > On Thu, 2018-12-06 at 12:31 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: > > Liam, > > > > no, I really meant projects-old.gnome.org which as I described on my > > original e-mail was the pre-2013 projects page we had running before > > transitioning to the new wiki.g.o based projects listing. > > Yes, i understood that. Sorry if i wasn't clear. > > > I believe the engagement team was looking > > into possible new ways to unify projects listing into one single > > view, not sure what's the status there though. > > Then i'd suggest holding off until you know, because redirecting the > old page to a new mechanism would make the most sense. As i said, > there's lots of links to projects-old.gnome.org. > > Liam > > > > > cheers, > > Il giorno mer 5 dic 2018 alle ore 21:10 Liam R E Quin > > <l...@holoweb.net> ha scritto: > > > On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 11:22 +0100, Andrea Veri wrote: > > > > Hey, > > > > > > > > the projects-old website [1] was decided to be left around in > > > > 2013 > > > > right after transitioning projects pages to the GNOME's wiki > > > > (projects.g.o is a vhost that contains a set of redirects since > > > > then) > > > > > > i think you mean projects.gnome.org, right? > > > > > > That seems to be a lot less complete, and also just has project > > > names > > > and not explanations. So there's (out of date) information being > > > lost. > > > > > > There are also a lot of external links to the page, so you'll break > > > a > > > lot of links (and, for what it's worth, hurt gnome.org's search > > > ranking > > > a little in the process). But this could be mitigated with an HTTP > > > redirect to a page telling people how to find what they might have > > > wanted. > > > > > > > for a short period of time while the transition was happening. I > > > > believe it's now a good time (after 5+ years!) to retire the > > > > former > > > > website all together. > > > > > > If it goes, it might be helpful to add short descriptions to > > > projects.gnome.org, although that would mean a bunch of work of > > > course. > > > The (current) wiki pages are not organized enough to make this a > > > question of easy scraping so maybe the answer is to automate > > > something > > > that grabs the page title from the linked pages, and encourage > > > project > > > maintaners to edit their wiki pages as needed? > > > > > > On the other hand it's fun exploring the page to find out what > > > things > > > are :) > > > > > > The new page is much better overall, even without descriptions, > > > because > > > of the division into categories. > > > > > > Liam (irc::ankh) > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ > > > with fabulous vintage art and fascinating texts to read. > > > Click here to have the slave beaten. > > > > > > > > -- > Liam Quin - web slave for https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ > with fabulous vintage art and fascinating texts to read. > Click here to have the slave beaten. > -- Cheers, Andrea Red Hatter, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator, Former GNOME Foundation Board of Directors Secretary, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
