don't forget to work work the donation page factor into it... enlightenment.org/donate just isn't working ;)
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Andres Blanc <[email protected]> wrote: > Before anyone else spends a second creating or editing existing website or > wiki content we need to sort this project's face out. The current > website(s) > and wiki(s) are a mess, to continue to add content without sorting this out > is > simply a waste of time. As I see it we have three veins: > > 1. Project promotion (this includes news). > 2. Community support and documentation. > 3. Community resources and applications. > > These three fit perfectly in three websites: > > 1. E.org > 2. Trac > 3. Exchange > > But outside of this we have a wealth of internal sites and subdomains that > is > a real mess, I can easily find 5 different guides of installing e17. We > need > to cut this out and fit the corresponding content in the corresponding > venue. > > Before writing anything else let me say: We need to show Exchange more > love, in the backend and the frontend, to make it more appealing for > external > application developers to announce their project news and updates there. > This > produces dynamic lists and content we can reuse without effort and without > forcing them to create pages on our wiki and update some application table > on > the wiki. > > I didn't write much about exchange in the new TODO [0] and SITEMAP [1] > files I > uploaded recently, but as I dig out and research what we have and the way > other > similar projects are organized I realize that having a wealthy and active > exchange is a winning move. > > [0] http://www.enlightenment.org/dev/README.html#todo > [1] http://www.enlightenment.org/dev/SITEMAP.html > > I thought both of these files were more or less complete, but as I said the > more I dig the more I find and their content might be out of date compared > to > this mail. > > I ask you to review these files after reading this mail and let me know > what > you think, we need to agree to some structure at least in our facade. > > The other subject of this mail are the subdomains. I'm talking not about > the > services they provide in the backend but what is presented when a simple > http > request is done on the root folder. > > http://forum.enlightenment.org/ > We need an user forum but having users to register multiple times in > multiple sites is ridiculous so I suggest to REDIRECT this to a trac > page > using DiscussionPlugin: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/DiscussionPlugininstead > of the current forum. > I don't have the permissions to do this or anything else outside the SVN > tree but I would gladly take the time to install this if asked to. > > http://svn.enlightenment.org/ > REDIRECT to a wiki page that explains how to download either the full > SVN > tree or specific folders, as an anonymous and as a registered user. > Installation of E17 is covered by linking to the installation section of > the E17 user guide. > > http://docs.enlightenment.org/ > REDRECT to a wiki page containing basically the same info, internal > files > will be served as requested. > > http://trac.enlightenment.org/ > REDIRECT to http://trac.enlightenment.org/e/ > > http://packages.enlightenment.org/ > REDIRECT to a wiki page containing the same info, Files that do not use > the repository system (like window packages) should be in Download and > pointed from the wiki page. > > http://download.enlightenment.org/ > Should remain as the point of manually downloading anything E related > outside SVN. We can update the look and feel of the directory listing to > match the rest of the site and including links to wiki pages that might > be of interest. > > There are other sites and subdomains that should be merged into these three > veins I talked about and can be found in the stage 3 of the todo list: > > http://www.enlightenment.org/dev/README.html#stage-3-design-of-external-sites-and-doxygen > > I have read all mails written about this in the past and I traced my plans > taking every idea into consideration, but if you feel I missed one make > sure to > let me know. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and > easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
