Re: More winehq.org improvements and issues: About page now links to articles in the wiki
On 4 Aug 2009, at 10:42, Francois Gouget wrote: On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Scott Ritchie wrote: I have begun some cleanup of the website, starting with the most popular pages. In particular, the about page: http://www.winehq.org/about/ The text is much easier to read for a newcomer to get a general overview of the project. Actually I got the page in French (which is good) so I don't know if I got the latest version. But I did not find a way to switch the language on the page (I could reconfigure the browser but that's not reasonable to expect). So this raises two questions: Someone else already answered that the link to switch languages is on the main winehq.org page. However, I'd like to suggest that the current language is not handled via a cookie but rather as part of the URL. That would make it possible for external sites to link to the right language and also google would be able to find these other languages. If I configure google to only return results in German and search for Wine I get German Wikipedia entries as a result but not a link to winehq.org in German. At least not on the first results page. * Shouldn't we have a way to switch between languages? Also, the link to the next page still says 'Wine's History: Next' instead of 'L'historique de Wine: Suivant'. So maybe links are not localizable? (it could also be that the translation is missing) That's just a missing translation. Cheers, -Maik
Wine to be used as botnet testbed
More in the linked New York Times article, Sandia National Labs plans to have a Dell super computer run 1 million Linux instances using Wine to host and study a botnet: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28comp.html?_r=1 Does someone on the list have more detailed information on or is even involved with it? How about we post about this on winehq.org as well? Would be a departure from posing only about new releases and WWN issues, but it could make winehq.org more interesting for users... I'd volunteer... Cheers, -Maik
Re: why is Kronenberg's Wine/Mac work blacklisted on winehq?
On 29 Jun 2009, at 14:10, joerg-cyril.hoe...@t-systems.com joerg-cyril.hoe...@t-systems.com wrote: If there were a plain vanilla wine built on OS X IMHO, Mac Users can expect from a binary distribution something Mac- like, e.g. some kind of GUI. Another OSS project I've worked on for over a decade used to embed NeXtStep specific GUI source code. There was no GUI for any other UNIX derivative. Why not ship something that meets the OS users' expectations? +1
Re: why is Kronenberg's Wine/Mac work blacklisted on winehq?
Hi Jörg, Juan, On 25 Jun 2009, at 22:05, Juan Lang wrote: Greetings Jörg, Yesterday I edited http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/FAQs to be much less outdated than before and today I found that Dmitry Timoshkov removed all references to Mike Kronenberg's Wine binary distribution at http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/ This is unappropriate censorship to me. I can't speculate about Dmitry's motivations, but there is one simple rationale I can think of for such an action: the Wine project does not generally provide support for binary distributions. The only exceptions are those that are simple compiles of the official WineHQ git source, with required dependencies, but otherwise unmodified source. Mike Kronenberg's package may be close to this, but as long as it has any patches applied that are not in mainline, it doesn't qualify, at least in my opinion. This isn't to say that Mike isn't free to make his own distribution available, subject to the usual license restrictions. It just means that we're under no obligation to mention it. --Juan IMHO, it would be sufficient to add a not supported by winehq.org disclaimer next to the mention. If there currently is no binary distribution that packs the vanilla wine tree then you're making it unnecessarily difficult to obtain a binary distribution for the Mac OS X crowd. XCode is a separate install/download (weighing in at almost 1GB) and people are generally less comfortable with the command line than Linux folks. I had to google quite a bit to find current wine packages for OS X and a link on the wiki would have been much appreciated. Cheers, -Maik
winehq.org page importance / website statistics
Hi, for translation (to German) purposes I wonder which pages of the winehq.org website are most frequented (are there HTTP request statistics?) and which are deemed most important so I can focus on them in order. It would also be interesting to know which pages are going to be moved to the Wiki eventually so I don't waste effort translating these. Everything that is shown on the start page plus some other pages are done and I'm looking for direction on where to continue. Cheers, -Maik
Re: winehq.org page importance / website statistics
Hi Paul, it's a good pointer to start, thanks. For the other two points: Does anybody have an opinion on the importance of pages as well as which ones should be moved to the Wiki? Cheers, -Maik On 28 May 2009, at 10:13, Paul Vriens wrote: Maik Schulz wrote: Hi, for translation (to German) purposes I wonder which pages of the winehq.org website are most frequented (are there HTTP request statistics?) and which are deemed most important so I can focus on them in order. It would also be interesting to know which pages are going to be moved to the Wiki eventually so I don't waste effort translating these. Everything that is shown on the start page plus some other pages are done and I'm looking for direction on where to continue. Cheers, -Maik Not sure if this will help you: http://www.winehq.org/webalizer/index.html -- Cheers, Paul.
Re: winehq.org page importance / website statistics
On 28 May 2009, at 17:10, Austin English wrote: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Maik Schulz maik.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Paul, it's a good pointer to start, thanks. For the other two points: Does anybody have an opinion on the importance of pages as well as which ones should be moved to the Wiki? Please bottom post on wine mailing lists. As for your questions, importance is a bit hard to say. Important to users, or to potential developers? For the wiki, a lot of it should be eventually, but some have objected doing so until the wiki's theme is updated to match WineHQ's. -- -Austin NP. Importance to whom is a good question--who is the target group for winehq.org? Or who benefits most from it? Importance to that latter group is what I'm after. Looking at the webalizer output, the most popular pages are the start page, the download page, the news, the site search, the about page, and the help page (taken from the top 10 URLs). From this I gather that it's mostly users that frequent winehq.org. The latest patch to the developer page actually put the link to the wiki as the topmost with the comment that it typically has more recent information than the web pages. Does that make it safe to assume that winehq.org should concentrate on users and wiki.winehq.org on (potential) developers? If that's the direction then it's more clear which content to translate. Cheers, -Maik
winehq.org language selection suggestion
Hi, instead of having the change language link at the bottom of the main page, why not display the country flags directly and shade the ones that are inactive (or find some other way of indicating the active one)? Then non-english users had a better clue that language options are available at all and wouldn't have to figure out what change language means ;-) Cheers, -Maik
Re: Linking to a Mac OS X build of Wine from winehq.org/download ?
On 21 Dec 2008, at 16:50, Dan Kegel wrote: Say, http://www.kronenberg.org/darwine/ seems to be a popular source of nearly up to date wine builds for the mac. How about we link to it from http://winehq.org/download/ ? Furthermore, are his packages good enough to support? If so, how 'bout we ask him to add links to bugzilla and the appdb from his page? There is another source of OS X Wine builds at http://thisismyinter.net/Files/Darwine/Leopard/Installers/ . This is where I got my installers in the past, the owner is rebuilding the site at the moment though. My feeling was that they worked better but I don't have any hard evidence to support this. Cheers, -Maik
question about translating winehq.org
Hi, how can I translate the top navigation bar (Forums would be Foren in German) and the word Search (would be Suche in German) next to the search box? Cheers, -Maik
Translating to winehq.org
Hi, I just started translating the new winehq.org to German. How would you like to receive the git patches for the translated template files? One at a time whenever I have them ready, or at the end in one batch? Also, what about obsolete content? E.g. contributing.template still lists Wine 1.x tasks (with a link to an empty Bugzilla list) as well as an empty Wine 0.9.x tasks list. Cheers, -Maik
