(Cc goes to gnome web list) Hi John, thanks for replying
john palmieri schrieb: > There has been work on the new site though I'm not sure what the > status is, I'm guessing it is in GNOME SVN. I think the people > involved just got overwhelmed with other things. If you wanted to > volunteer I bet the web team would welcome your help. Its not that I do not know anything about the status. As far as I understand there are the old pages in SVN - and also somewhere is a new Plone based website that will be release final at any date in the future. The problem is rather, that some small fixes like bug #553529 get uncommented for a month, some things (like deleting gnome office pages) even took 4 years. There is not at all a lack of volunteers - but most do give up contributing as they are not able to really help or get feedback on what they do, or what they like to do. Or if they get feedback they get a NO. Another fact will be, that even if the new Plone based site will be ready in two years (and ahy everything other changes are stopped) it could hardly suck up all pages that are there currently. There is an endless count of pages. Many projects also do not update theirs any more like the Epiphany guys. As i said - its not so much a technical or a work problem - its a problem of responsibility and organization. GNOME web teams sounds good, but its impossible to get a definitive answer from anybody because everybody only takes part of the responsibility and none of that is official. In relation to a GNOME software project its like there is no release management - and the SVN mechanism reduces possible help mostly to those who are focusing on software development and not websites (which is really a totally unrelated task). The GNOME Germany web pages face similar problems and are offline since 3 years. Same problem - nobody cares and nobody wants to be responsible - but different effect - www.gnome.org still exists but its in very bad shape. I am not seeking for a short term solution but I like to see a longterm organizational change which would be somebody who gets task to manage the web sites from the GNOME Foundation. This should be somebody who has good connections to the developer community but rather comes from a web background or at least has helped some web projects to get (re)launched. It does not have to be the one who actually writes code or works on the web server configs, but he should be able to do so if nobody else does. I would suggest to seek somebody who does just this. I guess there would be some in the GNOME related community who could do that. And that would be the one to contact, who also leads the web team and has the last word on major changes, deadlines, etc.. I think that somebody like that is missing for years. Until now things only changed if somebody with SVN access was motivated to fix things. Thats not sufficient for managing important web pages. regards, Thilo -- Thilo Pfennig - PfennigSolutions IT-Beratung- Wiki-Systeme Sandkrug 28 - 24143 Kiel (Germany) http://www.pfennigsolutions.de/ XING: https://www.xing.com/profile/Thilo_Pfennig - LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tpfennig _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
