Re: new layout

2004-05-03 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 14:30 +0200, Ludovico Grossi wrote: Hi, i created a new header for your website (very similar to the actual one), and i want to give to you. I love it! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times

2004-04-16 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 15:17 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: On 2004-04-16 15:09:07 +0100 Alexander Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that I should add that a new date format has now appeared A patch would probably be better. I was under the impression that one would be unwelcome. Would

[PATCH] IPA transliteration of Debian pronunciation

2004-04-12 Thread Alexander Winston
I have attached a patch for the proper description of the pronunciation of Debian that is listed on http://www.debian.org/intro/about. It is written using the International Phonetic Alphabet. Index: english/intro/about.wml === RCS

Re: [PATCH] IPA transliteration of Debian pronunciation

2004-04-12 Thread Alexander Winston
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 18:22 +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: Alexander Winston: I have attached a patch for the proper description of the pronunciation of Debian that is listed on http://www.debian.org/intro/about. It is written using the International Phonetic Alphabet. The English

Re: [PATCH] IPA transliteration of Debian pronunciation

2004-04-12 Thread Alexander Winston
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 20:02 +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: Alexander Winston: Will they be converted to UTF-8 anytime soon? It seems silly to keep around such deprecated encodings. Maybe around the same time Debian is 100% UTF-8 compatible :-) I haven't found any compatibility issues

Re: [PATCH] IPA transliteration of Debian pronunciation

2004-04-12 Thread Alexander Winston
On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 22:04 +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: Anyway, this is off-topic for this list... Back to the patch, it does indeed need to have the non-latin-1 characters encoded as NCRs. Gotcha. I've attached the updated one. Index: english/intro/about.wml

Lack of ISO 8601 dates and times

2004-04-12 Thread Alexander Winston
There are too many date and time notations used on the Debian Web site, especially the main page. Toward the beginning of http://www.debian.org/, the April 13th, 2004 format is used. Further down, the 13 Apr 2004 format is used repeatedly. The Tue, Apr 13 00:30:00 UTC 2004 format is at the very

Re: Typos in web sites

2004-03-20 Thread Alexander Winston
On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 20:03 -0800, Matt Kraai wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 03:20:14PM +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: Index: vote/2000/leadership_debate/transcript.wml === RCS file:

Re: Standards compliance of debian

2004-03-04 Thread Alexander Winston
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 20:29 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, can you tell me if Debian is compliant with LSB (linux standard base) and LFH (Linux filesystem heirarchy) ? The reason I'm asking the www email address is because I haven't been able to find that on the site's about

Re: Minor typos in english and portuguese

2004-02-14 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 02:26 +0100, Jens Seidel wrote: Hi, I found the following typo which should be fixed by native speakers: $ grep -ri vunerab . ./english/News/weekly/1999/32/index.wml:and no Debian packages are vunerable. Announcements were also made about an

Re: Suggestion for To-Do List Page

2004-01-14 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 10:43, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Alexander Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-01-12 17:38]: On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:38, Alexander Winston wrote: Currently, on http://www.debian.org/devel/todo/, we have a list of things to be done that users and developers can work

Re: Suggestion for To-Do List Page

2004-01-14 Thread Alexander Winston
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 08:34, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lun 12/01/2004 à 20:38, Alexander Winston a écrit : Currently, on http://www.debian.org/devel/todo/, we have a list of things to be done that users and developers can work on, though some are fairly limited to developers. I propose

Suggestion for To-Do List Page

2004-01-12 Thread Alexander Winston
Currently, on http://www.debian.org/devel/todo/, we have a list of things to be done that users and developers can work on, though some are fairly limited to developers. I propose adding http://debian.vitavonni.de/packagebrowser/ and especially

Re: Suggestion for To-Do List Page

2004-01-12 Thread Alexander Winston
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 14:38, Alexander Winston wrote: Currently, on http://www.debian.org/devel/todo/, we have a list of things to be done that users and developers can work on, though some are fairly limited to developers. I propose adding http://debian.vitavonni.de/packagebrowser

Re: Assessing the outdatedness of our web site translations

2004-01-09 Thread Alexander Winston
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 16:05, Peter Karlsson wrote: Hi! Half a year ago I said that I was working on weeding out outdated translations from the web site. Outdated, in this context, means translations that has not been updated along with their original documents for several months. Finally

Re: probable error in a webpage

2004-01-09 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 09:34, Luca Monducci wrote: Hi, i'm a italian translator of Debian website. I'm working on ports/sparc/porting.wml and i find out this: If you want to be an official porter, you must be a registered Debian developer. That is, your private key must appear in the

Re: Validation pages up and running

2003-12-27 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 02:53, Denis Barbier wrote: Hi, http://people.debian.org/~barbier/tidy/ http://people.debian.org/~barbier/validate/ are generated again. Josip, when will you make lessoften run? The l10n stuff is running on gluck, I did not yet ask admins access to non-us, so

Re: Validation pages up and running

2003-12-24 Thread Alexander Winston
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 02:57, Denis Barbier wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:12:48PM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote: [...] Japanese translators requested many times that English text (at least text which is embedded in all languages) use plain ASCII (with entities if needed) and not ISO

Re: Validation pages up and running

2003-12-23 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 17:53, Denis Barbier wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 08:53:14AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote: Hi, http://people.debian.org/~barbier/tidy/ http://people.debian.org/~barbier/validate/ are generated again. The following pages cannot be checked because there are

Re: You know what.

2003-11-28 Thread Alexander Winston
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 09:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I heard some days ago that your servers got violated. I asume that is why i cant reach MANY of your pages. If you got some kind of standard information about this, whats going on, when everything might be back to normal, etc i would

Re: is gluck.debian.org down ?

2003-11-28 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 11:43, Lluís Padró wrote: Hi I've been trying for the last couple of weks to get the images to test the beta debian-installer from gluck.debian.org, but the server appears to be down... Best Lluis Padro Yes, Gluck is down.

Re: debian question

2003-11-28 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 08:40, Šourek Petr wrote: Hi, I have one question about debian. Exactly its not about the system itself. I am relatively new in the Linux os, but as I tried few distributions, I begun to like Debian, but I am not writing to you and telling you how the system is

Re: Current release version needs bumping on front page

2003-11-26 Thread Alexander Winston
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 10:20, Olly Betts wrote: I would file a bug, but the BTS still seems to be down... http://www.debian.org/ section Getting Started says: The latest stable release of Debian is 3.0r1. The last update to this release was made on December 16th, 2002. This should be

Re: packages.debian.org offline?

2003-11-26 Thread Alexander Winston
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 08:17, Ernest Lergon wrote: Hi, FYI: http://packages.debian.org seems to be offline. The following is from an earlier e-mail by Gerfried Fuchs (I'm lazy): Just in case you didn't notice (not really meant too sarcastic, there still seem to be people not having noticed

Re: Current release version needs bumping on front page

2003-11-26 Thread Alexander Winston
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 16:56, MJ Ray wrote: On 2003-11-26 21:12:57 + Alexander Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: November 21, 2003 (without the ordinal suffixes) would be best. ITYM 21st November, 2003 :^) No, I mean November 21, 2003. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Package pages are down

2003-11-25 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 11:00, Scott Hathcock wrote: Maintainer, I can not reach the package pages directly or through the search. Please read URI:http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH] Standards and Quirks Modes

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander Winston
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 19:19, Alexander Winston wrote: The Debian Web pages all use the document type declaration '!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN,' which, while not invalid, is considered bad form and fails to trigger standards compliance mode in Internet Explorer

Re: [PATCH] Standards and Quirks Modes

2003-11-15 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 16:48, Tommi Vainikainen wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Debian Web pages all use the document type declaration '!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN,' which, while not invalid, is considered bad form and fails to

Re: Broken link: http://www.debian.org/CD/artwork/

2003-11-15 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 19:38, Dennis Stampfer wrote: Hi! While browsing through http://www.debian.org/CD/artwork/, I found the following dead link: http://www.autistici.org/marc0/sdcdc.html (editable shell and Gimp Scheme scripts) Maybe remove it or try to reach the Author

[PATCH] Standards and Quirks Modes

2003-11-13 Thread Alexander Winston
The Debian Web pages all use the document type declaration '!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN,' which, while not invalid, is considered bad form and fails to trigger standards compliance mode in Internet Explorer and Mozilla (Gecko, really) derivatives. I have attached a

Re: Bug#202865: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/ not linked from /devel/testing

2003-11-09 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:32, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 10:46:15PM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:19, Colin Watson wrote: --- testing.wml 18 Sep 2003 16:07:07 - 1.17 +++ testing.wml 9 Nov 2003 03:15:20 - @@ -300,6 +300,10

Re: Bug#202865: http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/ not linked from /devel/testing

2003-11-08 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 22:19, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 07:11:30PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Package: www.debian.org Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-25 Severity: wishlist It's a great resource, I think it should be linked to. Is there any reason not to

Scribing Dates

2003-11-07 Thread Alexander Winston
It seems that the de facto debian-www style guide stipulates that dates be written in the following form: January 1st, 2004. However, almost all professionally written works follow this style: January 1, 2004. Are there objections to the latter? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Scribing Dates

2003-11-07 Thread Alexander Winston
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:00, MJ Ray wrote: On 2003-11-07 19:27:18 + Alexander Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: almost all professionally written works follow this style: January 1, 2004. Are there objections to the latter? Yes. I think it should be 1st January 2004 or 2004, January

Re: Proofreading From a Native English Speaker

2003-11-03 Thread Alexander Winston
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 05:49, MJ Ray wrote: On 2003-11-02 23:29:28 + Alexander Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless of how commonplace this usage is, it should not be accepted. If I understood the posted references correctly, you are objecting to the use of the native

Re: Proofreading From a Native English Speaker

2003-11-02 Thread Alexander Winston
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 16:23, Joey Hess wrote: Alexander Winston wrote: Hello. It has come to my attention that you have requested English proofreading from native English speakers. While I have not looked over the Web site in great detail yet, a large error I have noticed that punctuation

GIF to PNG Conversion

2003-10-21 Thread Alexander Winston
What exactly needs to be done with concern to the GIF-PNG conversion? I am able to convert the GIFs to PNGs using gif2png, then minimize their file size using optipng -zc1-9 -zm1-9 -zs0-2 -f0-5. Would a patch for this be welcomed?

Re: GIF to PNG Conversion

2003-10-21 Thread Alexander Winston
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:14, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Alexander Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-10-21 01:38]: What exactly needs to be done with concern to the GIF-PNG conversion? I am able to convert the GIFs to PNGs using gif2png, then minimize their file size using optipng -zc1-9 -zm1-9