We used to use IRC a long time ago, but we stopped when we switched to gitter. We should probably close down the channel and remove the link to the logs. I think we left them up because the logging service we used had a requirement that we have a link to the logs on our website.
Aaron Meurer On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 3:59 PM Nikhil Maan <nikhilmaa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think the website has any major limitations. It's still pretty > good and definitely does the job. But it can still use some minor > improvements. > > Here are some of the things I think can be updated. The landing page looks > a little cluttered, we can clean that up a little bit. The last change to > the roadmap was 2 years ago, might as well update it. I think the support > and Development pages can also be merged and improved, and the other pages > can also use a revision. Sometimes from the looks, the website feels it was > created by someone as a hobby for a project handled by a couple of people, > not a project with hundreds of developers, but that's just my opinion. > > Now, our conference, PyCon India, is getting really close, so I'm a little > crunched on time this weekend. So, I'll come up with the survey questions > for users in a couple of days, sometime this week. We can also advertise > the survey on our twitter along with the mailing list and GitHub. > > As for the static generator, let me do some research and see if changing > to another generator would bring any useful feature without much effort of > porting. I'll come back to that and create an issue if I find something > suitable that can be useful to us, otherwise, we can just revise and update > the content. > > P.S.: Going through the website, I checked the IRC logs, and they look > mostly empty except a few people joining and leaving sometime. So, we have > an IRC channel? and we're not using it? > > Regards, > Nikhil Maan > > On Wednesday, September 23, 2020 at 1:26:54 AM UTC+5:30 asme...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> I'm curious what you see as the limitations of the existing website? I >> personally think our current website is fine. Maybe some of the content >> could be improved or moved around a bit, but I don't know if that >> necessitates a new static generator for it. >> >> Aaron Meurer >> >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:32 AM Jason Moore <moore...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Nikhil, >>> >>> I recommend creating some kind of survey with carefully crafted >>> questions to discover what the SymPy community (users and devs) might want >>> in a website upgrade. Maybe you can come up with 5 or 6 key questions that >>> take < 5 mins to complete to try to get a broad sampling of opinions and >>> then advertise it beyond the mailing list and Github. Given the results, I >>> would lean to prioritizing SymPy user needs over SymPy developer needs in >>> the work you do. It may be tempting to spend lots of time on a fancy >>> website build system instead of updating the content, organization, and >>> appearance of the website, but I believe the latter is much more important. >>> >>> As for choice in static site generators I'd recommend 1) choosing one >>> that is very likely to be popular and well maintained in the long run, 2) >>> reduces the amount of work needed to convert from the current website, 3) >>> and, if possible, written in Python because our community knows Python and >>> will have little trouble writing extensions, modifications, for any special >>> things we desire. >>> >>> Good idea! Share the proposal as you draft it and we can give you >>> feedback. >>> >>> Jason >>> moorepants.info >>> +01 530-601-9791 <(530)%20601-9791> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 3:08 PM Nikhil Maan <nikhil...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey folks, >>>> >>>> I would like to work on this as a NUMFOCUS grant project. What kind of >>>> changes do we want in the website? >>>> As for the static generators, in my experience, I found hugo to be >>>> simpler and easier to use for everyone and it also has a vast library of >>>> themes that we can use. The main problem I've had with it is it's in a pre >>>> v1 release, so some things do tend to break sometimes with some releases. >>>> >>>> On Thursday, May 28, 2020 at 9:16:02 PM UTC+5:30 nicog...@gmail.com >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I think that using a static generator would have advantages from the >>>>> translation point-of-view as well. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 3:27:28 PM UTC-5, Aaron Meurer wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I think we can modify the backend, but we should be prepared as >>>>>> mentors to do the programming work. Conversely, I don't know if it >>>>>> would make sense to make any changes without feedback from a >>>>>> technical >>>>>> writer if we are going to get one, so I don't know if it makes sense >>>>>> to do anything like this now, aside from initial research into what >>>>>> alternatives are out there. >>>>>> >>>>>> Aaron Meurer >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "sympy" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to sympy+un...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/ac3605e5-763a-48ac-bcf3-c97cebfe0bedn%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/ac3605e5-763a-48ac-bcf3-c97cebfe0bedn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "sympy" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to sympy+un...@googlegroups.com. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AiuA%2B%3D0t6CE2O4Aq-J4puBsvg64nk2jDvgUTo7M-UFxfQ%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CAP7f1AiuA%2B%3D0t6CE2O4Aq-J4puBsvg64nk2jDvgUTo7M-UFxfQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/01d412ed-507e-40dd-9d99-02e54c155f16n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/01d412ed-507e-40dd-9d99-02e54c155f16n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. 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