Hi Thomas, this is to confirm that we want to keep listed on the blends web site.
Cheers Ole On 22.07.19 03:48, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Blends developers > > today I sat together with some people who intend to update Debian web > pages. On one hand they care about design they also care about content > and structure of content. The structure should be unified and the > content should be updated by not only provide up to date information but > also by deleting stuff that is irrelevant. > > It turned out that for some Blends the information is recent and well > maintained, some Blends care not much about their documentation but are > active otherwise (shame on me that I consider Debian Med in this > category) and some Blends were either never really active or are not > active any more. The people who are working on new web pages want to > provide current information and thus want remove the last category > which I will refer to as "inactive" below. (If you are actually > consider yourself inactive or do not know what I'm writing about you > could stop reading here in principle since any response is only > expected from active Blends.) > > To find out what Blend should be considered as active I proposed to > write this e-mail to the main communication channel and ask the > developers of the Blend to confirm they consider themselves an active > Blend and will provide more content about that Blend to the web team if > requested to do so. > > This mail goes to the mailing list of all those Blends that are listed > under > > http://www.debian.org/blends [1] > > as well as those projects that are featuring metapackage code in Git > and have a mailing list or only a private mail address since no > mailing list existed or the mailing list vanished by the shutdown > of alioth since nobody cared about the migration (if those single > maintainers do not know what this mail is about they certainly fall > under the category "inactive" and do not need respond anyway.) > > So please every Blend team that wants to be listed on [1] > in future please write an e-mail to > > Thomas Lange <[email protected]> > > confirming that this Blend is active and wants to be represented > on the official Debian Web site. We actually want to unify the > presentation of Blends and you should name a default entry page > for your Blend. Currently we have some very positive examples > like > > Debian Astro: https://blends.debian.org/astro/ > Debian Edu: https://blends.debian.org/edu/ > > We also have the "care not so much about documentation ones" > > Debian Med: https://blends.debian.org/med/ > Debian Games: https://blends.debian.org/games/ > or even worse > Debian Junior: https://blends.debian.org/junior/ > > ones and those who simply maintain just a Wiki page. Once you confirmed > that your Blend is active you should probably start working on this - > possibly by discussing some common standard for the Blends entry page on > the general Blends list ([email protected]) >
