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
> havn't actually offered my help What can
> I say. Here's hoping for the best. :)
happy new year!
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