On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 11:30 -0800, Ben Hartshorne wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 02:40:52PM -0800, Peter Mui wrote: > > Hi All (at ganglia-general): > > > > I've been talking to Matt Massie about re-doing the Ganglia website > > at http://ganglia.info/ > > > > We're open to any or all ideas at this point so feel free to chime in > > with whatever comes to mind. > > I actually like most aspects of the ganglia website. Even so, feeling > the need to chime in, I give these three requests: > > * take the "Main Menu" to a top bar, and make it consistent across all > sections of the website. My biggest website gripe is consistency - > the entire site should have a consistent look-and-feel. A global menu > is one step towards this goal.
done. > > * Fix the gmetric repository. There are a whole bunch of neat gmetrics > floating around, and several different versions of metrics that do > basically the same thing. I even went so far as to start my own > gmetric page because I didn't like most of the metrics there. > Modeling the gmetrics section after the Firefox extensions page would > be awesome - allow ratings to float the best to the top, but also > categorize so alternatives within a particular metric (say, taking > detailed disk metrics) are available. i agree this need to be done but not sure the right way to do it.... i like the wiki approach.. and i actually installed a wiki at http://ganglia.info/wiki/ but it didn't get much traction with the team.... maybe it needs to be revisited... > > * Fix the Documentation section and add a FAQ, wiki style. There's a > lot of good info out there, but it's hard to get to. A nice section > of a wikiable FAQ would be complete sample configuraitons (actually > taken from practice that *really* work, rather than ways you should be > able to set it up... ;) see above. > > I realize that some ofthese things are rather grandiose in scope and I > <hides face> havn't actually offered my help...</hides face>. What can > I say. Here's hoping for the best. :) happy new year! -- matt massie phone: 415.692.0828 x2843 fax: 415.278.0441 http://archrock.com/
