Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-04 Thread Tom Eastep
Mike Noyes wrote:
You needn't do that. I think Ray was only suggesting a new thread for
the package format discussion.
As always, everyone's opinion is valuable. This is how we reach
consensus.
Mike,
I'm not sure that I had anything valuable to say in the first place. I 
should have taken a deep breath and counted to 10 before jumping into 
this discussion.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-04 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 16:59, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> At 02:49 PM 7/3/2004 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote:
> > Is it a download from pserver using viewcvs?

Ray,
It is.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/leaf/devel/kapeka/dachstein_glibc-2.1.3

ViewCVS
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/leaf/devel/kapeka/dachstein_glibc-2.1.3/

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> This may not even involve a Sourceforge CVS ... the frames piece obscures 
> that ... recall that my original comment urged us to be ready to deal with 
> download problems both from our own site and important links, and I count 
> the "Developer Content" trees as important.
> 
> Once again, I meant this only as an example of what we have to be ready to 
> correct if non-IE Windows users report problems (if we impose a "no IE" rule).

Understood. As I said before, I'm not sure it's even a good idea.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-04 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 14:27, Tom Eastep wrote:
> Ray Olszewski wrote:
> > It is important, I think, to keep these two sets of issues distinct, not 
> > to bounce from one to the other arbitrarily.
> 
> You're right Ray -- I'll go back in my cave.

Tom,
You needn't do that. I think Ray was only suggesting a new thread for
the package format discussion.

As always, everyone's opinion is valuable. This is how we reach
consensus.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-03 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:49 PM 7/3/2004 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote:
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 14:08, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>  The problem we do seem to have is with the .iso extension -- see
> my message yesterday.
>
> So Mike should fix the .iso mime-type problem as part of any
> away-with-IE policy.
Ray,
What is the url for the .iso that isn't handled properly? Is it a
download from pserver using viewcvs?
Note: the mime type issue was corrected quite a while ago for
files contained in the SF FRS.

I don't know the actual URL, because it seems to arrive in a frame. Start at
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/kapeka/
and follow the path to "Download Dachstein CD", then 
"dachstein-1.0.2.1-glibc-2.1.3.iso", then the first "download" choice 
dieplayed in the CVS page that gets displayed. (The URL shown does not 
change during this sequence, so I assume I'm seeing a page with frames.) 
Using Netscape 7.1 on WIn2K, this choice delivers jabberwocky.

This may not even involve a Sourceforge CVS ... the frames piece obscures 
that ... recall that my original comment urged us to be ready to deal with 
download problems both from our own site and important links, and I count 
the "Developer Content" trees as important.

Once again, I meant this only as an example of what we have to be ready to 
correct if non-IE Windows users report problems (if we impose a "no IE" rule).



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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-03 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 14:08, Ray Olszewski wrote:
>  The problem we do seem to have is with the .iso extension -- see 
> my message yesterday.
> 
> So Mike should fix the .iso mime-type problem as part of any 
> away-with-IE policy.

Ray,
What is the url for the .iso that isn't handled properly? Is it a
download from pserver using viewcvs?

Note: the mime type issue was corrected quite a while ago for
files contained in the SF FRS.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-03 Thread Tom Eastep
Ray Olszewski wrote:
It is important, I think, to keep these two sets of issues distinct, not 
to bounce from one to the other arbitrarily.


You're right Ray -- I'll go back in my cave.
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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-03 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 01:31 PM 7/3/2004 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
K.-P. Kirchdörfer wrote:

I understand - but changing the name from lrp to tgz is a _lot_of work - 
rewriting the packaging tools (lrpkg), rewriting the docs, reworking the 
webpages, recompile every package, maybe I forgot something - you see 
this is error-prone. And a renaming wouldn't help us to get more 
developers to solve the remaining issues (providing the files in 
/var/lib/lrpkg, strip down the packages to the needed stuff (no man pages 
etc.), stripping the binaries and on and on.
I'm sure you're right right that we missed the opportunity to make this 
change throughout Bering but the problem we're discussing is download. 
Can't people rename files from mummble.tgz to mumble.lrp after they have 
download them?
Tom

PS -- if your product is written in Bourne Shell, you have to be 
LEAF-aware on almost every line of code you write.
Tom -- I'm afraid you missed the point of my original messages. The 
download system handles .lrp just fine, treating it as a binary 
(application-octet) mime type. I tested this yesterday using Netscape on 
Windows. The problem we do seem to have is with the .iso extension -- see 
my message yesterday.

And yes, of course people *can* deal with this sort of problem by 
renaming  after they download. But "can" != "should", and in my opinion it 
is bad practice to impose one more pointless chore on beginners who are 
already going to struggle a bit to get up to speed on LEAF. If we chose to 
suggest, or insist, that Windows downloaders avoid IE, then we need to 
correct any problems they encounter with downloads, not hand them extra 
chores. So Mike should fix the .iso mime-type problem as part of any 
away-with-IE policy.

I didn't pursue any of this in reply to your prior message, because your 
prior message was clearly NOT about download issues. You wrote about 
substantive problems that developers face adapting the CONTENTS of their 
packages to LEAF. That is in no way a download issue, and K-P responded to 
the issues you raised in that context. Your PS above continues that 
separate disussion ... which I will leave to you and him (or others) to 
sort out.

It is important, I think, to keep these two sets of issues distinct, not to 
bounce from one to the other arbitrarily.



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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-03 Thread Tom Eastep
K.-P. Kirchdörfer wrote:

I understand - but changing the name from lrp to tgz is a _lot_of work - 
rewriting the packaging tools (lrpkg), rewriting the docs, reworking the 
webpages, recompile every package, maybe I forgot something - you see this is 
error-prone. 
And a renaming wouldn't help us to get more developers to solve the remaining 
issues (providing the files in /var/lib/lrpkg, strip down the packages to the 
needed stuff (no man pages etc.), stripping the binaries and on and on.

I'm sure you're right right that we missed the opportunity to make this 
change throughout Bering but the problem we're discussing is download. 
Can't people rename files from mummble.tgz to mumble.lrp after they have 
download them?

-Tom
PS -- if your product is written in Bourne Shell, you have to be 
LEAF-aware on almost every line of code you write.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-03 Thread K.-P. Kirchdörfer
Am Samstag, 3. Juli 2004 04:57 schrieb Tom Eastep:
> Ray Olszewski wrote:
> > At 06:58 PM 7/2/2004 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
> >
> >
> > The .lrp extension isn't the problem. It requires only a 1-line addition
> > to an Apache config file. No big deal to do, and we get the same "order
> > of magnitude" improvement.
>
> Ray, it is the dozens of 1-line differences that are involved in trying
> to make and support a LEAF-compatible package that makes it very rare
> for a product developer like me to supply native LEAF packages.

Tom,

I understand - but changing the name from lrp to tgz is a _lot_of work - 
rewriting the packaging tools (lrpkg), rewriting the docs, reworking the 
webpages, recompile every package, maybe I forgot something - you see this is 
error-prone. 
And a renaming wouldn't help us to get more developers to solve the remaining 
issues (providing the files in /var/lib/lrpkg, strip down the packages to the 
needed stuff (no man pages etc.), stripping the binaries and on and on.

You are right, it's a summary of all the one-liners, but I think it's nearly 
the same as with the most distro's - some require .deb, some rpm; some has 
ipv6 as standard (Suse 9.1), others not...

For every developer, who seriously wants to support LEAF, I suggest to have a 
look at buildtool/buildpacket

http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/buc-buildtool.html
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/guide/bucd-buildpacket.html

As a non-programmer I needed a few days and five packages to get used to it, 
I'm now able to work out an buildtool setup in two hours, including building 
a package out of the compiled stuff - later updates are done in less than 
five minutes - respecting "the dozens of 1-line differences".

Only drawback at the time is that both packages are build with Bering-uClibc 
in mind, but they are available in cvs and if someone is willing to add 
support for Bering or to fork out a Bering-orientied setup, feel free to do 
so.

IMHO, the user-base of LEAF is too small to attract developers to support 
lrp/tgz as we need it (Tom, you are an exception and a big thank you for your 
support!) - and possibly lack of information.

kp


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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-02 Thread Tom Eastep
Ray Olszewski wrote:
At 06:58 PM 7/2/2004 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:

The .lrp extension isn't the problem. It requires only a 1-line addition 
to an Apache config file. No big deal to do, and we get the same "order 
of magnitude" improvement.
Ray, it is the dozens of 1-line differences that are involved in trying 
to make and support a LEAF-compatible package that makes it very rare 
for a product developer like me to supply native LEAF packages.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-02 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 06:58 PM 7/2/2004 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
[...]
If we would just admit that .lrp files are nothing more than stylized 
gzip-compressed tar files and change their extension to .tgz, we 
wouldn't have this problem.
If you are referring to the text/binary problem I raised, this is not 
true. It applies to any idiosyncratic extension, since most Web servers 
treat unknown extensions as type text.
My point is that under the covers, a .lrp archive is really a .tgz and 
that the .tgz extension is orders of magnitude more common than .lrp. So 
by switching the extension from .lrp to .tgz, you reduce the problem by a 
similar order of magnitude. Out of the box, Apache is configured with .tgz 
as a known extension -- not so with .lrp.

I understood that the first time, Tom. I'm trying to say that I disagree 
with it.

The .lrp extension isn't the problem. It requires only a 1-line addition to 
an Apache config file. No big deal to do, and we get the same "order of 
magnitude" improvement. LEAF uses the .lrp extension a lot, and has for a 
long time, so it's worth making a modest effort to let it work for 
downloads ... that's a lot less work than rewriting the package installer, 
I'd think. And we seem to have done so; I never have a problem with an .lrp 
package from LEAF.

The problem arises when various LEAF developers individually coin their own 
idiosyncratic extensions and, since they do their downloads using Linux, 
don't notice that they've made life hard for Windows users (except the ones 
who use IE, of course).

Note that in my prior message, I listed an enormous number of oddball 
extensions that Sourceforge gets right, and only one -- .iso -- that it (or 
possibly a non-Sourceforge site that we're linking to; it was hard to tell) 
handled wrong.

Since .iso is a meaningful extension to the Linux (and I think to the 
Windows) community, we shouldn't deal with this problem by (for example) 
forcing all .iso files to be renamed .iso.bin. We should fix the problem on 
the server.



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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-02 Thread Tom Eastep
Ray Olszewski wrote:
At 04:50 PM 7/2/2004 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
Mike Noyes wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:13, Ray Olszewski wrote:

This gets to the heart of the matter, and is the main reason I asked.
I'm not sure that we should do anything. However, I'd be disappointed if
a person using a leaf branch gets compromised because of IE problems.
You probably know who I think would mistakenly get blamed.

If we would just admit that .lrp files are nothing more than stylized 
gzip-compressed tar files and change their extension to .tgz, we 
wouldn't have this problem.

If you are referring to the text/binary problem I raised, this is not 
true. It applies to any idiosyncratic extension, since most Web servers 
treat unknown extensions as type text.
My point is that under the covers, a .lrp archive is really a .tgz and 
that the .tgz extension is orders of magnitude more common than .lrp. So 
by switching the extension from .lrp to .tgz, you reduce the problem by 
a similar order of magnitude. Out of the box, Apache is configured with 
.tgz as a known extension -- not so with .lrp.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-02 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 04:50 PM 7/2/2004 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
Mike Noyes wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:13, Ray Olszewski wrote:

This gets to the heart of the matter, and is the main reason I asked.
I'm not sure that we should do anything. However, I'd be disappointed if
a person using a leaf branch gets compromised because of IE problems.
You probably know who I think would mistakenly get blamed.
If we would just admit that .lrp files are nothing more than stylized 
gzip-compressed tar files and change their extension to .tgz, we wouldn't 
have this problem.
If you are referring to the text/binary problem I raised, this is not true. 
It applies to any idiosyncratic extension, since most Web servers treat 
unknown extensions as type text.

Linux sites are often quite bad about this -- it's not at all unusual for 
me to have to switch over to wget on a Linux host to download an 
executable, if I'm following my normal everyday practice of using Netscape 
on Win2K. Not all Web servers even know what .tgz is (though I'm sure that 
Sourceforge does), and I've seen some that don't do .bin right. The .iso 
extension for CD images, and .img for (usually) floppy images, can be 
problems too. I think the cause is that Linux sites are usually run by 
people who use Linux (duh), and so they don't have to do any conversion of 
text files, so miss the problem.

There's really no getting around it that the Web server has to get it right 
... and ideally (at least in my view), it should treat unknown extensions 
as binary files, not text files ... but I rarely see that approach 
implemented. Though I've just now been trying some of the Developer Content 
directories for LEAF ... the place where the oddball extensions tend to 
turn up ... and Sourceforge is treating a pretty wide range of stuff as 
binary -- examples are lrp, md5, md, cfg, config, patch, c, log, and no 
extension at all -- so they may do it this way. But it tries to send a .iso 
file (in cvs accessed through K.-P. Kirchdörfer's area) as text ... so go 
figure.



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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-02 Thread Mike Noyes
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 16:50, Tom Eastep wrote:
> Mike Noyes wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:13, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> > > Aside from some
> > > minor cosmetic issues, the main thing here is to make sure we
> > > consistently use file extensions for binaries that the Web server
> > > identifies as a mime-type that will bring up the SAVE dialog, NOT one
> > > that will treat is a text download and thus turn it into jabberwocky.

> > Mime type for .lrp and other binary types can be defined with .htaccess.
> > This is the method we use currently.
> 
> If we would just admit that .lrp files are nothing more than stylized 
> gzip-compressed tar files and change their extension to .tgz, we 
> wouldn't have this problem.

Tom,
You're correct. I have no objection to changing the .lrp extension. Of
course your suggestion of .tgz is the most compatible. I've considered
.ltz in the past (mimicking the Midori package .mlz naming), but this
has the same mime issues as .lrp.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-02 Thread Tom Eastep
Mike Noyes wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:13, Ray Olszewski wrote:


This gets to the heart of the matter, and is the main reason I asked.
I'm not sure that we should do anything. However, I'd be disappointed if
a person using a leaf branch gets compromised because of IE problems.
You probably know who I think would mistakenly get blamed.
If we would just admit that .lrp files are nothing more than stylized 
gzip-compressed tar files and change their extension to .tgz, we 
wouldn't have this problem.

-Tom
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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-02 Thread Mike Noyes
On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:13, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> We should make sure that if we instruct (advise? compel? see below)
>  people to use a non-IE browser, LEAF's own Website, and major links
>  like the one to Charles' site, works properly with it. Aside from some
>  minor cosmetic issues, the main thing here is to make sure we
>  consistently use file extensions for binaries that the Web server
>  identifies as a mime-type that will bring up the SAVE dialog, NOT one
>  that will treat is a text download and thus turn it into jabberwocky.

Ray,
Thanks for the feedback.

Mime type for .lrp and other binary types can be defined with .htaccess.
This is the method we use currently.


> The bottom line question, though, is whether this is a good idea or
>  not. I think that depends on the implementation. I would encourage you
>  to consider a method that ADVISES IE users of the problem, but not one
>  that compels them to change browsers in order to get LEAF. Me, I like
>  advice, but I hate orders ... "obey" is a 4-letter word ... and I
>  suspect a lot of our user base is the same way.

This gets to the heart of the matter, and is the main reason I asked.
I'm not sure that we should do anything. However, I'd be disappointed if
a person using a leaf branch gets compromised because of IE problems.
You probably know who I think would mistakenly get blamed.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website & IE

2004-07-02 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:18 AM 7/2/2004 -0700, Mike Noyes wrote:
Everyone,
What does everyone think of our new website redirecting all IE users to
a firefox download? I'm asking about this because of the recent IE
security problems. Homelandd Security and CERT are recommending
alternate browsers for current IE users. It would be a drastic step, but
we are a security conscious community.
An example of the elseif redirect is in phpwebsite-comm cvs.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpwebsite-comm/themes/debug/
New Website Status Update:
I hope to have a new preview ready early next week. I apologize for the
delay.
As a general matter, there is some attractiveness to your idea. Even though 
we are a Linux project, the reality is that a lot of our users come from a 
Windows background (for that matter, I use a Win2K workstation myself, and 
I've run Linux systems since 1992). And vulnerable Windows systems on the 
Internet hurt all of us, not just their own users.

We should make sure that if we instruct (advise? compel? see below) people 
to use a non-IE browser, LEAF's own Website, and major links like the one 
to Charles' site, works properly with it. Aside from some minor cosmetic 
issues, the main thing here is to make sure we consistently use file 
extensions for binaries that the Web server identifies as a mime-type that 
will bring up the SAVE dialog, NOT one that will treat is a text download 
and thus turn it into jabberwocky.

(This problem, still annoyingly pervasive, is the main reason I even keep a 
copy of IE on my Win2K system; for better or worse, IE is the only Windows 
browser I know of that will spot server lies about the mime-type of binaries.)

As far as I can tell, our current setup is OK in this respect. But I doubt 
I was able to hit everything in a quick check, so others should supplement 
my checking, and/or we should be ready to correct promptly any problems 
that new users encounter.

The bottom line question, though, is whether this is a good idea or not. I 
think that depends on the implementation. I would encourage you to consider 
a method that ADVISES IE users of the problem, but not one that compels 
them to change browsers in order to get LEAF. Me, I like advice, but I hate 
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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website (prof-of-concept)

2004-05-27 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 12:40, Sean Covel wrote:
> Epiphany 1.0.7  (and I though I was using FireFox last time I checked)
> 
> XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: 
> http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/bering-uclibc/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=categories

Sean,
Thanks for reporting this. Many xhtml well-formed issues were addressed
in phpWebSite 0.9.3-3. I like to think my debug theme had a small part
in that. Anyway, I'll upgrade our site to 0.9.3-3 in the next couple of
days and check for this well-formed error again.

My debug theme:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/phpwebsite-comm/themes/debug/
http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=view&ANN_id=740

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website (prof-of-concept)

2004-05-27 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 11:50, K.-P. KirchdÃrfer wrote:
> Mike I loaded with mozilla  - now how to change stylesheets?

K.-P.,
In Mozilla use:

View -> Use Style

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website (prof-of-concept)

2004-05-27 Thread Sean Covel
Mike,
Epiphany 1.0.7  (and I though I was using FireFox last time I checked)
XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: 
http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/bering-uclibc/index.php?module=announce&ANN_user_op=categories&MMN_position=10:10 
Line Number 233, Column 166: Categories | Submit 
News 
-^

FireFox 0.8 does the same thing.
I clicked on uClibC in the header, clicked on the "new test" 
announcement on the right, then clicked on announcements on the left...

Sean
Mike Noyes wrote:
Everyone,
I added alternate stylesheet support for browsers that can handle pages
served as application/xhtml+xml (mozilla, firefox, and maybe opera).
http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/
Note: Blue and Orange are available, but the sylesheets are only
prof-of-concept. I'm still figuring out the ramifications of the
stylesheet split (persistent, preferred, and alternate)
necessary with this change.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website (prof-of-concept)

2004-05-27 Thread K.-P. Kirchdörfer
Am Mittwoch, 26. Mai 2004 18:19 schrieb Mike Noyes:
> Everyone,
> I added alternate stylesheet support for browsers that can handle pages
> served as application/xhtml+xml (mozilla, firefox, and maybe opera).
>
> http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/
>
> Note: Blue and Orange are available, but the sylesheets are only
> prof-of-concept. I'm still figuring out the ramifications of the
> stylesheet split (persistent, preferred, and alternate)
> necessary with this change.

Mike I loaded with mozilla  - now how to change stylesheets?

kp


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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-18 Thread Mike Noyes
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 14:23, Larry Platzek wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, Mike Noyes wrote:
> > Thanks for the feedback. What url was the Floppy Image section at?

> http://leaf.steinkueler.net/bering-uclibc/
> The Floppy Image
> you will see the changelog section
> 
> Extra Packages is too far (you missed the changelog Section).

Larry,
Thanks for the information. Apparently, I forgot to update the Bering
uClibc home page after I created the others. I'll correct this problem.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-18 Thread Larry Platzek
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Mike Noyes wrote:

> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 10:41:56 -0700
> From: Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: leaf-devel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [leaf-devel] New Website
>
> On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:18, Larry Platzek wrote:
> > Mike was looking at //leaf.steinkueler.net/bering-uclibc/
> > The Floppy Image section and clicked on "changelog section"
> > link and it took me to //leaf.steinkueler.net/ a minor whoops.
>
> Larry,
> Thanks for the feedback. What url was the Floppy Image section at?
>
> --
Mike
http://leaf.steinkueler.net/bering-uclibc/
The Floppy Image
you will see the changelog section

Extra Packages is too far (you missed the changelog Section).

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-18 Thread Mike Noyes
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 10:43, Martin Hejl wrote:
> Mike Noyes wrote:
> > I'll work on these two suggestions. I guess the information wasn't as
> > redundant as I first though.
> 
> Just to throw in my two cents - I agree that it was/is redundant. But I 
> also feel that it is not obvious to the casual observer how to get to a 
> specific branch without that redundancy.
> If we can make it easier for users to find the information they're 
> looking for, I'd say it's very well worth the redundancy.
> 
> It's obviously not a big deal for somebody who knows the page, but I'd 
> say we should make it as easy as possible for new users to find the 
> relevant information (well, either that, or be prepared to answer tons 
> of "help, I can't find the packages page anymore" questions).

Martin,
Thank you for the feedback. I'm convinced. I'll rework the Derivation
page back into something that resembles our current Releases/Branches
page.

Everyone,
Any help with navbar readability is welcome. Here is the css it uses:

.navbar, .navbar a:link, .navbar a:visited {
font-size: .9em;
font-variant: small-caps;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
color: #cc;
background-color: #33;
padding: .3em 0em .3em 0em;
}

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 11:20, Tom Eastep wrote:
> When you download Mozilla (or Firefox), be sure to download the
>  GTK2/Xft version; with the "standard" version, the fonts suck...

Everyone,
If you're using WinXP, make sure you turn ClearType on.

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/cleartypeactivate.htm

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-17 Thread Martin Hejl
Hi Mike,
Mike Noyes wrote:
I'll work on these two suggestions. I guess the information wasn't as
redundant as I first though.
Just to throw in my two cents - I agree that it was/is redundant. But I 
also feel that it is not obvious to the casual observer how to get to a 
specific branch without that redundancy.
If we can make it easier for users to find the information they're 
looking for, I'd say it's very well worth the redundancy.

It's obviously not a big deal for somebody who knows the page, but I'd 
say we should make it as easy as possible for new users to find the 
relevant information (well, either that, or be prepared to answer tons 
of "help, I can't find the packages page anymore" questions).

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:18, Larry Platzek wrote:
> Mike was looking at //leaf.steinkueler.net/bering-uclibc/
> The Floppy Image section and clicked on "changelog section"
> link and it took me to //leaf.steinkueler.net/ a minor whoops.

Larry,
Thanks for the feedback. What url was the Floppy Image section at?

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-17 Thread Mike Noyes
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 04:26, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> Mike Noyes wrote:
> > The readability of the nav bar may be related to the small caps, and
> > fonts you have installed. Do you have the Bitstream Vera fonts
> > installed?
> 
> The larger size is readable for me (Mozilla 1.6 on 'doze), but the 
> darker colors make the nav-bar seem 'disconnected' from the actual 
> website, especially on the pages that still have the smaller text.

Charles,
Thanks for the feedback. :-)

I'll work on the navbar readability. However, I think people are
misunderstanding the purpose of the navbar. In essence we now have seven
websites. They share common code and a database, but everything else is
separate. I created the navbar to allow moving from one website to
another and back again. This is one of the reasons I used different
colors for the navbar. The navbar is separate from the branch content.

Everyone,
If we use the Hub main menu Releases/Branches page exclusively, how will
we navigate to one of the other branch sites within our website? Menus
are unique to each branch (content is stored in the database using a
table prefix).


> I also think the releases/branches page (and main-menu item) should 
> return.  There's too much difference between branches to cover with a 
> simple nav bar.
> 
> For quick access, I think listing a few of the current popular 
> distributions on the main page is fine (ie: perhaps a bering, 
> bering-uClibc, and 'others' link, with others taking you to the releases 
> page).

Charles,
I'll work on these two suggestions. I guess the information wasn't as
redundant as I first though.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-17 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
Mike Noyes wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:47, Tom Eastep wrote:
> I changed the font (bold, small caps, and size) and bar size (padding)
> in this release. I gather the improvements weren't enough to make the
> nav bar stand out for you.
Given that it is both dark and tiny, it does not stand out at all. Under 
Firefox on my 19" monitor, "Bering uClibc" is only about 2/3" wide and 
is almost unreadable. "Lince" *is* unreadable.
Tom,
Thanks for the feedback. :-)
The readability of the nav bar may be related to the small caps, and
fonts you have installed. Do you have the Bitstream Vera fonts
installed?
The larger size is readable for me (Mozilla 1.6 on 'doze), but the 
darker colors make the nav-bar seem 'disconnected' from the actual 
website, especially on the pages that still have the smaller text.

I agree with KP that the Releases/Branches menu should return.
I'll give this serious consideration. If it returns, the nav bar won't.
I've been trying to eliminate redundant information.
Everyone,
Does anyone think the nav bar is usable? Is it worth working on further,
or should I scrap it? Is it good enough to last a few months waiting for
phpWebSite 0.9.4 to be released?
Note: this theme is only temporary. We'll have a theme contest
as soon as phpWebSite 0.9.4 is released.
IMHO:
If you want a nav-bar, it should pretty much duplicate the content on 
the main-menu (or perhaps a subset of main-menu entries), and match the 
style of the rest of the site (ie: currently black text on blue).

I also think the releases/branches page (and main-menu item) should 
return.  There's too much difference between branches to cover with a 
simple nav bar.

For quick access, I think listing a few of the current popular 
distributions on the main page is fine (ie: perhaps a bering, 
bering-uClibc, and 'others' link, with others taking you to the releases 
page).

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-17 Thread Juan Jesus Prieto
Hi Mike,

  I use Gentoo Linux and Mozilla 1.4 (Gecko/20040206) and It looks fine (in 
konqueror 3.2.1 too).

Regards

El Dom 16 May 2004 00:11, Mike Noyes escribió:
> Everyone,
> A new preview of our website is on-line at:
>
> http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/
>
> Note: I still need to add our announcements, rss feeds, and
> developer login information.
>
> Feedback is appreciated.

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RE: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-17 Thread Luis.F.Correia
[snip]
> Tom,
> Thanks for the feedback. :-)
> 
> The readability of the nav bar may be related to the small caps, and
> fonts you have installed. Do you have the Bitstream Vera fonts
> installed?
> 
> > I agree with KP that the Releases/Branches menu should return.
> 
> I'll give this serious consideration. If it returns, the nav 
> bar won't.
> I've been trying to eliminate redundant information.

Mike,

I've only seen the NavBar 'after' reading KP's email saying it is
not very visible.

> 
> Everyone,
> Does anyone think the nav bar is usable? Is it worth working 
> on further,
> or should I scrap it? Is it good enough to last a few months 
> waiting for
> phpWebSite 0.9.4 to be released?

IMHO, it can be scraped.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread Mike Noyes
K.-P.,
Thank you again for providing additional feedback. I appreciate you
taking the time to evaluate my latest work.

On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 09:49, K.-P. KirchdÃrfer wrote:
> but IMHO developer information should be concentrated in one menu;
>  currently we have:
> 
> "Development" in main menu
> 
> "Developers" and "cvs repository" in Sourceforge menu.

I have no objection to removing the Developers and CVS Repository from
the SourceForge menu.

> The task manager entry (Sourecforge) points to a currently unused sourceforge 
> feature. I vote for removing/hiding until it is used. I've always get a bad 
> impression about a project on sourceforge if the link to "dead sides".

This is my fault. Our Tracker feature is used, but not maintained well.
This will change when I can devote sufficient time to it. Our project
policy documents will be the first step in the process. Look at the
to-do list on my developer page:

http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/devel/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=51

> On the download page I find GNU Arch repository - "page not found" -
>  but what's the intention behind?

This will link to our local mirror of the wisp-dist gnuarch/tla
repository.

> About redundancies - I almost agree - but Releases/branches are the
>  heart of LEAF - having three pointers (menu entry, navigatable
>  derivation picture and navigation bar) is not a bad idea. For users
>  who know what they are looking for, a navigation bar is a short path
>  to the branch they like to access. For new users a menu entry is
>  helpful - not to mention that the current intro page of
>  release/branches is missing on new webpage. At least some general
>  information should be given if we follow a "chaotic evolutionary
>  development" - the bar won't do.

You points cogent. Do you have a markup of the proposed Branches page I
could look at?

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread Tom Eastep
K.-P. Kirchdörfer wrote:
it's readable with Mozilla (anyway my Mozilla fonts are ugly) 
When you download Mozilla (or Firefox), be sure to download the GTK2/Xft 
version; with the "standard" version, the fonts suck...

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 09:56, K.-P. KirchdÃrfer wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 16. Mai 2004 18:39 schrieb Mike Noyes:
> > I just increased the size of the nav bar font for our hub site. Please
> > let me know if it is acceptable now.
> >
> > New navbar: http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/
> > Old navbar: http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/bering/
> 
> Mike - _no_ difference at all - with konqueror browser, kde 3.2.2, Suse
>  9.0 standard installation - it's readable with Mozilla (anyway my
>  Mozilla fonts are ugly)

K.-P.,
I'm using SuSE 9.0 also. Konq has quite a few css problems. For one, it
doesn't understand small-caps. I just displays them as caps. I has font
size issues also with css. Almost all the font sizes on Konq are
displayed wrong. In addition it isn't able to handle pages served as
application/xhtml+xml. I gather you don't have gnome installed with kde,
otherwise the Bitstream Vera fonts would be available to you.

> but do you think a new user will understand? (see my previous mail)

I will respond to your other post in a little while.

> And pls don't ask for fonts - a website should be
>  readable/understandable for every browser.

One of these fonts should be available on every platform, and they are
metric equivalents to each other. The only exception is the generic font
used as a last resort.

CSS: http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/themes/leaf/style.css
font-family: "Bitstream Vera Serif", Thorndale, "Times New Roman",
Times, serif;
font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans", Albany, Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif;
font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", Cumberland, "Courier New",
Courier, monospace;

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread K.-P. Kirchdörfer
Am Sonntag, 16. Mai 2004 18:39 schrieb Mike Noyes:
> On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 09:21, Mike Noyes wrote:
> > The readability of the nav bar may be related to the small caps, and
> > fonts you have installed. Do you have the Bitstream Vera fonts
> > installed?
>
> K. P. & Tom,
> I just increased the size of the nav bar font for our hub site. Please
> let me know if it is acceptable now.
>
> New navbar: http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/
> Old navbar: http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/bering/

Mike - 
_no_ difference at all - with konqueror browser, kde 3.2.2, Suse 9.0 standard 
installation - it's readable with Mozilla (anyway my Mozilla fonts are ugly) 
- but do you think a new user will understand? (see my previous mail)

And pls don't ask for fonts - a website should be readable/understandable for 
every browser.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread K.-P. Kirchdörfer
Am Sonntag, 16. Mai 2004 16:13 schrieb Mike Noyes:
> > 3) Maybe we should have a third menu - development - with the developer
> > Âinfo's/pages and cvs stuff
>
> This info is already available in the Developers branch.
> http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/devel/

I know;

but IMHO developer information should be concentrated in one menu; currently 
we have:

"Development" in main menu

"Developers" and "cvs repository" in Sourceforge menu.

The task manager entry (Sourecforge) points to a currently unused sourceforge 
feature. I vote for removing/hiding until it is used. I've always get a bad 
impression about a project on sourceforge if the link to "dead sides".

On the download page I find GNU Arch repository - "page not found" - but 
what's the intention behind?


About redundancies - I almost agree - but Releases/branches are the heart of 
LEAF - having three pointers (menu entry, navigatable derivation picture and 
navigation bar) is not a bad idea. For users who know what they are looking 
for, a navigation bar is a short path to the branch they like to access. For 
new users a menu entry is helpful - not to mention that the current intro 
page of release/branches is missing on new webpage. 
At least some general information should be given if we follow a "chaotic 
evolutionary development" - the bar won't do.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread Tom Eastep
Mike Noyes wrote:
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 09:21, Mike Noyes wrote:
The readability of the nav bar may be related to the small caps, and
fonts you have installed. Do you have the Bitstream Vera fonts
installed?

K. P. & Tom,
I just increased the size of the nav bar font for our hub site. Please
let me know if it is acceptable now.
New navbar: http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/
Old navbar: http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/bering/
*Much* better, Mike
Thanks!
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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 09:21, Mike Noyes wrote:
> The readability of the nav bar may be related to the small caps, and
> fonts you have installed. Do you have the Bitstream Vera fonts
> installed?

K. P. & Tom,
I just increased the size of the nav bar font for our hub site. Please
let me know if it is acceptable now.

New navbar: http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/
Old navbar: http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/bering/

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:47, Tom Eastep wrote:
> > I changed the font (bold, small caps, and size) and bar size (padding)
> > in this release. I gather the improvements weren't enough to make the
> > nav bar stand out for you.
> 
> Given that it is both dark and tiny, it does not stand out at all. Under 
> Firefox on my 19" monitor, "Bering uClibc" is only about 2/3" wide and 
> is almost unreadable. "Lince" *is* unreadable.

Tom,
Thanks for the feedback. :-)

The readability of the nav bar may be related to the small caps, and
fonts you have installed. Do you have the Bitstream Vera fonts
installed?

> I agree with KP that the Releases/Branches menu should return.

I'll give this serious consideration. If it returns, the nav bar won't.
I've been trying to eliminate redundant information.

Everyone,
Does anyone think the nav bar is usable? Is it worth working on further,
or should I scrap it? Is it good enough to last a few months waiting for
phpWebSite 0.9.4 to be released?

Note: this theme is only temporary. We'll have a theme contest
as soon as phpWebSite 0.9.4 is released.

BTW, people using mozilla/firefox will have their pages served to them
using application/xhtml+xml. Browsers incapable of handling xml will
have there pages served with text/html.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread Tom Eastep
Mike,
Mike Noyes wrote:

The menu above all with the branches is also a nice one - but was hard
to find - well you told me it's there; I simply overlooked - maybe
it's expectation about pages (and most of the pages are that way)
"menu's are on left side, in the middle, top of page is nothing,
bottom of page boring disclaims" - and it's so small, with bad eyes
you can't even read it. But don't remove it - if you are aware of it,
it's a good enhancement.

I changed the font (bold, small caps, and size) and bar size (padding)
in this release. I gather the improvements weren't enough to make the
nav bar stand out for you.
Given that it is both dark and tiny, it does not stand out at all. Under 
Firefox on my 19" monitor, "Bering uClibc" is only about 2/3" wide and 
is almost unreadable. "Lince" *is* unreadable.

I agree with KP that the Releases/Branches menu should return.
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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread Larry Platzek
On Sat, 15 May 2004, Mike Noyes wrote:

> Everyone,
> A new preview of our website is on-line at:
>
> http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/
> Note: I still need to add our announcements, rss feeds, and
> developer login information.
>
> Feedback is appreciated.
>
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Mike was looking at //leaf.steinkueler.net/bering-uclibc/
The Floppy Image section and clicked on "changelog section"
link and it took me to //leaf.steinkueler.net/ a minor whoops.

I will be looking around more later.

Will try to call on Monday.

Was glad you are recovering and all the hard work for LEAF!

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 00:46, K.-P. KirchdÃrfer wrote:
> a few points:

K.-P.,
Thanks for the feedback. :-)

> 1) Can you move entry for "MailingLists" from sourceforge menu to Main
>  menu? Looking at a new side I'm mostly interested in 
> a) downloads
> b) docs 
> c) Mailinglists - which tell me most about activity and culture
>  of this project, and is an invaluable source of knowledge.

I can, but there are two reasons I think it's not a good idea. First, in
my opinion, people look for Support before Mailing Lists. Our support
page has links to the list archive and subscription page. It also has
instructions on how to ask for help. Second, the link in the SourceForge
menu points to our SF mailing list page. That page lists multiple lists
in addition to the full SF interface. It may be confusing to a new user.


> 2) I'm still not satisfied with the solution how find the different
>  branches.

Noted.

> The menu above all with the branches is also a nice one - but was hard
>  to find - well you told me it's there; I simply overlooked - maybe
>  it's expectation about pages (and most of the pages are that way)
>  "menu's are on left side, in the middle, top of page is nothing,
>  bottom of page boring disclaims" - and it's so small, with bad eyes
>  you can't even read it. But don't remove it - if you are aware of it,
>  it's a good enhancement.

I changed the font (bold, small caps, and size) and bar size (padding)
in this release. I gather the improvements weren't enough to make the
nav bar stand out for you.

> I really like to have the current "Releases/branches" back (maybe
>  called only Branches) and without the submenu below a branch as today

This sounds redundant to me, but I'll think about it.

> 3) Maybe we should have a third menu - development - with the developer
>  info's/pages and cvs stuff

This info is already available in the Developers branch.
http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/devel/
KirchdÃrfer, KP
http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/devel/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=42
Noyes, Mike
http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/devel/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=51


> That said; thanks for your work!
> And indicates you are recovered, great.

The work is my pleasure. However, I'm still working on a few issues
resulting from my 'left front to parietal epidural hematoma'.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-05-16 Thread K.-P. Kirchdörfer
Am Sonntag, 16. Mai 2004 00:11 schrieb Mike Noyes:
> Everyone,
> A new preview of our website is on-line at:
>
> http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/
>
> Note: I still need to add our announcements, rss feeds, and
> developer login information.
>
> Feedback is appreciated.

Hello Mike;

a few points:

1) Can you move entry for "MailingLists" from sourceforge menu to Main menu?
Looking at a new side I'm mostly interested in
a) downloads
b) docs
c) Mailinglists - which tell me most about activity and culture of this 
project, and is an invaluable source of knowledge.

2) I'm still not satisfied with the solution how find the different branches.

The derivation picture is very nice - IF you know you can click on a branch. 
If you don't know, as I did first time you are lost. Besides that, for LEAF 
experienced users it's a genealogy, for a lot of users it's confusing - so 
IMHO not the best entry.

The menu above all with the branches is also a nice one - but was hard to find 
- well you told me it's there; I simply overlooked - maybe it's expectation 
about pages (and most of the pages are that way) "menu's are on left side, in 
the middle, top of page is nothing, bottom of page boring disclaims" - and 
it's so small, with bad eyes you can't even read it.
But don't remove it - if you are aware of it, it's a good enhancement. 

I really like to have the current "Releases/branches" back (maybe called only 
Branches) and without the submenu below a branch as today

3) Maybe we should have a third menu - development - with the developer 
info's/pages and cvs stuff

That said; thanks for your work! 
And indicates you are recovered, great.
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RE: [leaf-devel] New website theme(s)

2004-04-01 Thread Mike Noyes
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 00:43, Steven Peck wrote:
>  Also, depending on what you use, IE 5.5 may break ifyou go entirely css
> compliant.  Mozilla Firefox also can render things in an interesting
> manner.  Layout can be tables with font, formatting placement controlled
> by css.

Setven,
I'm aware of some of the CSS 2.0 visual formating model issues with
older browsers. CSS 2.1 RC addresses the major ones.

I'm most concerned with creation of XHTML/CSS 2.0 valid pages. Next on
my list is, WAI semantically correct pages. Last is CSS visual
formatting that gracefully degrades with older browsers.

> BTW:  Have you seen zengarden?
> http://www.csszengarden.com/

Yep. Very nice css example that's referenced often as a good
implementation of content separation from presentation.

> I love this one http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=069%2F069%2Ecss but
> it is not pratical for a tech site.  
> 
> I almost had phpWebsite up, stupid path failures. :( but for my external
> web server I am limited to Win32 and between my new son, work and
> restarting school, I don't have time to bring up the Linux box and get
> it working after I built it again.  I'll need to get it working again so
> I can build some themes for the contest.

I'm working on mirroring instructions. It is possible to run phpWebSite
on Windows, but the setup is harder. Drop by irc.freenode.net
#phpwebsite, if you need help getting phpWebSite running on Windows.

> When's 0.94 slated for release?

phpWebSite 0.9.4 should be out this summer.

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RE: [leaf-devel] New website theme(s)

2004-04-01 Thread Steven Peck
 Also, depending on what you use, IE 5.5 may break ifyou go entirely css
compliant.  Mozilla Firefox also can render things in an interesting
manner.  Layout can be tables with font, formatting placement controlled
by css.  

BTW:  Have you seen zengarden?
http://www.csszengarden.com/

I love this one http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=069%2F069%2Ecss but
it is not pratical for a tech site.  

I almost had phpWebsite up, stupid path failures. :( but for my external
web server I am limited to Win32 and between my new son, work and
restarting school, I don't have time to bring up the Linux box and get
it working after I built it again.  I'll need to get it working again so
I can build some themes for the contest.   When's 0.94 slated for
release?

-sp

NOTE:  Because my primary job in supporting Windows, my home environment
partially replicates work.  This way I can learn and make mistakes in a
manner that won't cost me my job :)



> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Mike Noyes
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 6:32 PM
> To: leaf-devel
> Subject: [leaf-devel] New website theme(s)
> 
> Everyone,
> Should we have a single theme for all of our sites (hub, bering,
> bering-uclibc, devel, lince, oxygen, wisp-dist), or separate themes?
> 
> Example of separate theme ideas: oxygen (airy), 
> bering (watery),
> wisp-dist (wirey), etc.
> 
> Note: the current pre-release demo is using a single theme.
> 
> Currently, the phpWebSite theme engine isn't able to handle the CSS
> visual formatting model well. Therefore tables are still used for
> layout. I'd like to postpone any theme design contests until after
> phpWebSite 0.9.4 is released.
> 
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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-03-30 Thread Mike Noyes
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 10:19, K.-P. KirchdÃrfer wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 30. MÃrz 2004 19:44 schrieb Mike Noyes:
> > Announcements haven't been added yet. It's one of the last things I'll
> > add. The Bering uClibc branch isn't done either.
> 
> Ok, understand  - it will be there once it's going online.

K.-P.,
There is one issue. The rssfeeds module isn't able to aggregate branch
announcement feeds into a single hub announcement list. I'm talking with
the developer about adding branch feed aggregation.

> > Others have commented on this also. I'm open to suggestions.
> >
> > Note: I got the top navbar idea from the SF.net OSDN navbar.
> > http://sourceforge.net/
> 
> Yep, that's thinner than everything and I have never seen it before yo 
> mentioned it - I think you get it.
> My suggestion to keep it and to add the old Releases/Branches entry back in 
> main menu - maybe without the submenues  - as second link main menu.

I'll look at solutions for this issue in the next couple of days.

Note: this is a theme issue. The current one is a quick hack.

> > Noted. I kind of like the imagemap. It's simple and easy to navigate. I
> > created it, so I'm probably biased.
> 
> Geez; I wasn't aware that it's navigatable!! Great! A real easter-egg :)
> Do it the old way as in current Releases/Branches; maybe put it on top.
> Anyway "Releases/branches" is a better description and some epxlanation as 
> today  will be useful.

I'll work on this too.

> > > 4) I don't like those serife fonts and prefer sans-serife, but it's 
> > > matter of taste I agree;
> >
> > Web designers got into a bad habit of using sans-serif fonts
> 
> As I said it's a matter of taste,

Agreed.

Note: this is a theme issue. The current one is a quick hack.

> > > 5) I do not understand right menu "What's related"  - is that generated
> > > dynamically?
> >
> > Yes. It's generated by the fatcat module. It's supposed to act as a site
> > cross-reference.
> 
> I do not understand - I'll try again - is that content generated dynamically 
> from the pages I browsed before?  

No. It's generated by categories setup in fatcat. The page you're
browsing is associated with specific categories. The related links are
generated from those associations.

Example:
FatCat category: Branch -> Lead Developer
Charles and your developer pages are marked as belonging to that
category. Now when you browse either page a related link is
generated to the other page.

Example:
FatCat category: Branch -> Bering uClibc
When viewing any team members page links to the other members
pages will show in what's related.

It's a way to cross-reference a site. I'm still figuring out how to make
best use of it.

Note: I've only populated fatcat in the hub and devel branch
site. I put a few in WISP Dist for website links.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-03-30 Thread K.-P. Kirchdörfer
Am Dienstag, 30. MÃrz 2004 19:44 schrieb Mike Noyes:
> On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 09:06, K.-P. KirchdÃrfer wrote:
> > a few notes, I hope I'll find more time to have a closer look:
> >
> > 1) I hope News Announcements will be available on first/home page as
> > today and it's only the tsting enviroemnt which don't show the news.
>
> K.-P.,
> Announcements haven't been added yet. It's one of the last things I'll
> add. The Bering uClibc branch isn't done either.

Ok, understand  - it will be there once it's going online.

> > 2) The different branches are now shown on top of page - but it's very
> > small and should be more prominent, because the users are looking for the
> > software. Maybe it should be as today a "Branches" entry in the Main
> > Menu.
> >
> > (As I look on the pages, the small entries on top are the most important,
> > but can easily overlooked.
>
> Others have commented on this also. I'm open to suggestions.
>
> Note: I got the top navbar idea from the SF.net OSDN navbar.
> http://sourceforge.net/

Yep, that's thinner than everything and I have never seen it before yo 
mentioned it - I think you get it.
My suggestion to keep it and to add the old Releases/Branches entry back in 
main menu - maybe without the submenues  - as second link main menu. 

> > 3) Derivation in the Main Menu is to much for a issue which is only for
> > history and those who interested in it to be part of Main Menu; instead I
> > prefer something like
> > http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=9&page_id=2
>
> Noted. I kind of like the imagemap. It's simple and easy to navigate. I
> created it, so I'm probably biased.

Geez; I wasn't aware that it's navigatable!! Great! A real easter-egg :)
Do it the old way as in current Releases/Branches; maybe put it on top.
Anyway "Releases/branches" is a better description and some epxlanation as 
today  will be useful.

> > 4) I don't like those serife fonts and prefer sans-serife, but it's 
> > matter of taste I agree;
>
> Web designers got into a bad habit of using sans-serif fonts
> exclusively. Font support is much better now. There is no reason to
> avoid serif fonts now. Serif fonts provide hinting for eye travel that
> makes reading easier. How many books do you know of that are printed
> using sans-serif fonts exclusively?

:) None, at least none I like to read.
But we are talking about webpages - maybe I'm too long at the web and used to 
old-style... As I said it's a matter of taste,I'll try to keep up with new 
style.

> > 5) I do not understand right menu "What's related"  - is that generated
> > dynamically?
>
> Yes. It's generated by the fatcat module. It's supposed to act as a site
> cross-reference.

I do not understand - I'll try again - is that content generated dynamically 
from the pages I browsed before?  


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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-03-30 Thread Mike Noyes
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 09:06, K.-P. KirchdÃrfer wrote:
> a few notes, I hope I'll find more time to have a closer look:
> 
> 1) I hope News Announcements will be available on first/home page as today and 
> it's only the tsting enviroemnt which don't show the news.

K.-P.,
Announcements haven't been added yet. It's one of the last things I'll
add. The Bering uClibc branch isn't done either.

> 2) The different branches are now shown on top of page - but it's very small 
> and should be more prominent, because the users are looking for the software.
> Maybe it should be as today a "Branches" entry in the Main Menu.
> 
> (As I look on the pages, the small entries on top are the most important, but 
> can easily overlooked.

Others have commented on this also. I'm open to suggestions.

Note: I got the top navbar idea from the SF.net OSDN navbar.
http://sourceforge.net/

> 3) Derivation in the Main Menu is to much for a issue which is only for 
> history and those who interested in it to be part of Main Menu; instead I 
> prefer something like
> http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=9&page_id=2

Noted. I kind of like the imagemap. It's simple and easy to navigate. I
created it, so I'm probably biased.

Note: I plan on updating the imagemap as soon as I can figure
out my font problem with dia on suse.

> 4) I don't like those serife fonts and prefer sans-serife, but it's  matter of 
> taste I agree;

Web designers got into a bad habit of using sans-serif fonts
exclusively. Font support is much better now. There is no reason to
avoid serif fonts now. Serif fonts provide hinting for eye travel that
makes reading easier. How many books do you know of that are printed
using sans-serif fonts exclusively?

> 5) I do not understand right menu "What's related"  - is that generated 
> dynamically?

Yes. It's generated by the fatcat module. It's supposed to act as a site
cross-reference.

> 6) the sort order of Project Members on http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/devel/ is 
> beyond me  - if there is any. I also liked the comments as today, seems they 
> have gone

The sort order will be fixed. I'm still working on that branch. The
current order matches our project member listing on SF.net.

> 7) I understand that this is a lot of work!!! Thx Mike!

I'm enjoying it. :-)

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-03-30 Thread K.-P. Kirchdörfer
Am Dienstag, 30. März 2004 02:26 schrieb Mike Noyes:
> On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 14:09, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> > Mike Noyes wrote:
> > > Website Update Status:
> > > I'm about 50-60% done with the upgrade. I'm not sure how long the
> > > remainder of the upgrade will take. I'll keep everyone posted on my
> > > progress. Thanks for being patient.
> >
> > Thanks for all your hard work on this Mike!
>
> Charles,
> Thank you for letting me use your mirror for testing. :-)
>
> Everyone,
> A preview of our new website is on-line at:
>
> http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/
>
> Note: It's not complete yet, but most of the site is there.
>
> Feedback is appreciated.

Ok;

a few notes, I hope I'll find more time to have a closer look:

1) I hope News Announcements will be available on first/home page as today and 
it's only the tsting enviroemnt which don't show the news.

2) The different branches are now shown on top of page - but it's very small 
and should be more prominent, because the users are looking for the software.
Maybe it should be as today a "Branches" entry in the Main Menu.

(As I look on the pages, the small entries on top are the most important, but 
can easily overlooked.

3) Derivation in the Main Menu is to much for a issue which is only for 
history and those who interested in it to be part of Main Menu; instead I 
prefer something like
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=9&page_id=2

4) I don't like those serife fonts and prefer sans-serife, but it's  matter of 
taste I agree;

5) I do not understand right menu "What's related"  - is that generated 
dynamically?

6) the sort order of Project Members on http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/devel/ is 
beyond me  - if there is any. I also liked the comments as today, seems they 
have gone
 

7) I understand that this is a lot of work!!! Thx Mike!

kp


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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-03-29 Thread Mike Noyes
On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 14:09, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> Mike Noyes wrote:
> > Website Update Status:
> > I'm about 50-60% done with the upgrade. I'm not sure how long the
> > remainder of the upgrade will take. I'll keep everyone posted on my
> > progress. Thanks for being patient.
> 
> Thanks for all your hard work on this Mike!

Charles,
Thank you for letting me use your mirror for testing. :-)

Everyone,
A preview of our new website is on-line at:

http://leaf.steinkuehler.net/

Note: It's not complete yet, but most of the site is there.

Feedback is appreciated.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-03-21 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
Mike Noyes wrote:
Website Update Status:
I'm about 50-60% done with the upgrade. I'm not sure how long the
remainder of the upgrade will take. I'll keep everyone posted on my
progress. Thanks for being patient.
Thanks for all your hard work on this Mike!

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-03-21 Thread Mike Noyes
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 12:12, Mike Noyes wrote:
> As you may have noticed, our new website isn't operational yet. Work is
> progressing slowly. I'll keep everyone informed of my progress, and post
> a message 24 hours prior to the upgrade.

Everyone,
Our shell space usage is now within our allotted 500MB. This was
achieved by archiving c0wz, steinkuehler.net, old oxygen site, and
packetfilter. Tarballs of the archived content are available in our FRS
area on SF.net.

Unsupported or Old Releases: website
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13751&package_id=11519&release_id=124474

IMPORTANT: Please refrain from adding content to our shell space until I
complete the upgrade of our website. Thanks.

Website Update Status:
I'm about 50-60% done with the upgrade. I'm not sure how long the
remainder of the upgrade will take. I'll keep everyone posted on my
progress. Thanks for being patient.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-03-16 Thread Mike Noyes
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 14:51, Mike Noyes wrote:
> Everyone,
> The website upgrade is taking longer than I anticipated. I'm less than a
> quarter done. Even so, I hope to go live with the new site this weekend.

Everyone,
As you may have noticed, our new website isn't operational yet. Work is
progressing slowly. I'll keep everyone informed of my progress, and post
a message 24 hours prior to the upgrade.

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Re: [leaf-devel] New Website

2004-03-09 Thread Juan Jesus Prieto
Hi Mohan,

El Lun 08 Mar 2004 23:51, Mike Noyes escribió:
> Everyone,
> The website upgrade is taking longer than I anticipated. I'm less than a
> quarter done. Even so, I hope to go live with the new site this weekend.
>
> Those that want to get a feel for the new features can use the demo at
> ASU:
>
> http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/demo/0.9.x/

  I like this new website :-).

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