Re: Looking for feedback - improving the site, translation process and wml setup

2000-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 09:09:22PM +0100, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: > > > > > Since this will involve doing quite a few changes to the existing setup, > > this would be a good time to implement other changes. I am asking > > for suggestions of things that people would like to see added or

Re: CVS access method change

2000-01-20 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 03:04:25PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:30:21PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > Hi! > > Once you asked translators to change to using ssh to access CVS. > > I have a difficult network situation (behind a firewall) and i am making > > some trick

Re: Looking for feedback - improving the site, translation process and wml setup

2000-01-20 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
> > Since this will involve doing quite a few changes to the existing setup, > this would be a good time to implement other changes. I am asking > for suggestions of things that people would like to see added or changed > that will improve the site or quality of translations, or simply make the >

Re: CVS access method change

2000-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:30:21PM +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > Hi! > Once you asked translators to change to using ssh to access CVS. > I have a difficult network situation (behind a firewall) and i am making > some tricks to get access to the repository, so needed some time to check if > I woul

Re: Sorting on country names [was Re: Debian WWW CVS: treacy]

2000-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
James A. Treacy wrote: > Since slices are handled in the last pass of wml, we can't use them in a > sort function. We'd have to put the countries in a perl hash. This > actually wouldn't be difficult since we are (probably) going to convert > to using the iso3166 abbrevs for countries and this coul

CVS access method change

2000-01-20 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi! Once you asked translators to change to using ssh to access CVS. I have a difficult network situation (behind a firewall) and i am making some tricks to get access to the repository, so needed some time to check if I would be able to use CVS after changing the method. Now that I've done some d

Looking for feedback - improving the site, translation process and wml setup

2000-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
Since I have only received positive feedback regarding the changes to the country code, I am planning on going ahead with it (there is still time to voice objections). Since this will involve doing quite a few changes to the existing setup, this would be a good time to implement other changes. I a

Sorting on country names [was Re: Debian WWW CVS: treacy]

2000-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 09:00:26AM +0100, peter karlsson wrote: > Debian WWW CVS: > > > Log message: > > moved ftp mirror list into data file and updated Makefiles > > Dang. That changed the sort order to sort on the English names, which looks > really weird on the Swedish page (like, for instanc

Bug#52673: marked as done (iglooftp: iglooftp is listed on the webpage but it doesn't download or apt-get)

2000-01-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Processed: this is removed from ftp.d.o, and not www.d.o

2000-01-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 52673 www.debian.org Bug#52673: iglooftp: iglooftp is listed on the webpage but it doesn't download or apt-get Bug reassigned from package `ftp.debian.org' to `www.debian.org'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Re: search function

2000-01-20 Thread Max Kosmach
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 05:19:56PM -0800, Darren O. Benham wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 03:45:00PM -0500, Bob Bagwill wrote: > > Hi, what's taking so long with the search function? No decent > > opensource search engine? > > Correct What about HtDig or UdmSearch (search ta freshmeat.net)

Re: Debian WWW CVS: treacy

2000-01-20 Thread peter karlsson
Debian WWW CVS: > Log message: > moved ftp mirror list into data file and updated Makefiles Dang. That changed the sort order to sort on the English names, which looks really weird on the Swedish page (like, for instance, that the Swedish word for Austria starts with the last letter of the Swedis

Re: abbrevs used for country names

2000-01-20 Thread peter karlsson
James A. Treacy: > Would people find this too disruptive or should I simply go > ahead and do it? Just as long as all uses of it are changed, I think it would be a good idea. -- \\// peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

Bug#51474: marked as done (package ircii available on both main and non-us)

2000-01-20 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 20 Jan 2000 02:28:52 -0500 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line closing has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen t

Bug#51474: package ircii available on both main and non-us

2000-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 04:42:56PM -0500, Frederic Briere wrote: > > I'll reassign the bug to www.debian.org, since it obviously has nothing > to do with non-us anymore... > The file for the version in main has been removed. Closing the bug -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed change in how the templates are handled

2000-01-20 Thread Darren O. Benham
Unfortunatly, it appears as if something like that is necessary :( On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 11:13:30PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > I am considering having changes to the template files be > sent through an intermediate set of files, say > english/template/updates. This is prompted partly becaus

Re: Proposed change in how the templates are handled

2000-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
Just to make sure there is no confusion, the daily update will still be done. -- James (Jay) Treacy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Proposed change in how the templates are handled

2000-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
I am considering having changes to the template files be sent through an intermediate set of files, say english/template/updates. This is prompted partly because there have been a number of mistakes made by people when modifying them. More importantly though, modifying the templates can cause all o

abbrevs used for country names

2000-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
We should have standardized a long time ago. I'm currently thinking we should standardize on the two letter iso3166 abbrevs for country names. The current functions can easily be modified to use these and sed scripts used to make the changes throughout the pages. This will make it easier when impo

Vendor pages (Re: noticed while building the web site)

2000-01-20 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jan 19, James A. Treacy wrote: > I was just thinking we need to break that page up. I knew it took > a long time to build, but didn't realize it was gobbling up memory. > (of course the load on master was around 8). > > Sees, do you have any suggestions on how we break this up? > The simplest w

Re: noticed while building the web site

2000-01-20 Thread James A. Treacy
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 04:11:01PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2000 -o UNDEFuHR:vendors.hr.html vendors.wml > Out of memory! > ** WML:Break: Error in Pass 9 (rc=1). > I was just thinking we need to break that page up. I knew it took a long time to build, but didn't realize it wa

Re: search function

2000-01-20 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 03:45:00PM -0500, Bob Bagwill wrote: > Hi, what's taking so long with the search function? No decent > opensource search engine? Correct -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. = * htt

noticed while building the web site

2000-01-20 Thread Joey Hess
wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2000 -o UNDEFuHR:vendors.hr.html vendors.wml Out of memory! ** WML:Break: Error in Pass 9 (rc=1). Hm, that can't be good. -- see shy jo