Re: contrib directory badly needed
Hello! Good idea. Moreover mc homepage should be more informative. If nobody protests, I could improve the mc homepage when I have more time, or even rebuild it from scratch. I develop some commercial sites (http://www.rpg-portal.pl http://www.nostromorpg.pl), so you could be sure I know how things work in web design. Both sites don't resolve, so I cannot see your work. I agree that the homepage needs to be improved. Please avoid Javascript and frames and make sure that the site remains useful with lynx. It would be great if you could show your preliminary design before you spend too much time on the new homepage. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin ___ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: contrib directory badly needed
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:52:49AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: Both sites don't resolve, so I cannot see your work. Sorry, some network problems. I'll kill the server admin when I catch him. Please avoid Javascript and frames and make sure that the site remains useful with lynx. Don't worry, I prefer simple and useful design. -- _.|._ |_ _.: Adam Byrtek, alpha@(irc.pl|debian.org) (_|||_)| |(_|: gg 1802819, pgp 0xB25952C0 |: jid alpha.pl(at)jabber.org ___ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
contrib directory badly needed
Maybe we need a directory for contributed changes that don't integrate well into the main codebase. YES! I browsed this list's archives and found lots of proposed patches that were never included into mc. I think we need to go through them once again and sort them into those that must be finally merged (e.g. the file coloring patch which I will take care of after I finish the hotlist) and those that should be at least kept in the contrib section. Also, some things that are merged are not documented. For example until recently I did not know about the wonderful --with-charset option. It's not in the man page or even in the FAQ! And by the way, why is it disabled by default? Note that the main strength of FAR, even though it is closed source, is its community of plugin writers and plugin web sites. This allows many people to contribute to FAR even without the main author's approval. With mc, if your patch was not accepted, you get zero visibility at all: the only place where your patch still lingers is the mailing list archives that are notoriously inconvenient to search. This must be changed. Is it too difficult to provide a section on the web page for storing patches and other useful things, with short author-supplied descriptions? -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ___ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: contrib directory badly needed
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:13:40PM -0500, bulia byak wrote: This must be changed. Is it too difficult to provide a section on the web page for storing patches and other useful things, with short author-supplied descriptions? Now there is a Patches section on the mc BTS, so the situation is a lot better. Supplying patches with official source is not a good thing - it would look like we support them, but when unmaintained they will be useless or broken within one release. IMO BTS is a good place for patches (we could put a link to it somewhere in documentation). Moreover when somebody wants to publish his patch - he could do this on his homepage. However 'contrib' dir would be a great thing for add-ons like mc-burner or some special vfses. Regards -- _.|._ |_ _.: Adam Byrtek, alpha@(irc.pl|debian.org) (_|||_)| |(_|: gg 1802819, pgp 0xB25952C0 |: jid alpha.pl(at)jabber.org ___ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: contrib directory badly needed
Now there is a Patches section on the mc BTS, so the situation is a lot better. I don't think so - it has a different purpose. Savannah account is a temporary storage for patches that are to be discussed and eventually either applied or rejected. What is needed, however, is a permanent storage for things that are not in mc but live their own parallel life. Supplying patches with official source is not a good thing - it would look like we support them I do not suggest to include them in the distribution. Just give them a prominent and permanent space to live on the mc web site (or linked from it). Moreover when somebody wants to publish his patch - he could do this on his homepage. Not everyone has one, and it's nearly impossible to find something specific if the storage is not centralized (unless you know exactly the name of the thing you're looking for). However 'contrib' dir would be a great thing for add-ons like mc-burner or some special vfses. Yes. -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ___ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
Re: contrib directory badly needed
Good idea. Moreover mc homepage should be more informative. If nobody protests, I could improve the mc homepage when I have more time, or even rebuild it from scratch. I develop some commercial sites (http://www.rpg-portal.pl http://www.nostromorpg.pl), so you could be sure I know how things work in web design. I think that would be fantastic! -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ___ Mc-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
