Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 09:48:30 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>, doc@FreeBSD.org, committers@FreeBSD.org, dgl@bsdi.com, jim@cdrom.com, papowell@astart.com, wpaul@FreeBSD.org, ceren@magnesium.net, ryan@ryan.net, murray@bsdi.com, core@deamonnews.org.xylan.com Subject: Re: The website Message-ID: <39577B4E.FA0D4C4D@softweyr.com> References: <17146.962016763@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> Nik,
>
> Go For It!
>
> I think our web-page is lying badly about the activity level in the
> project.
>
> A few comments:
>
> * All your suggestions sound great.
>
> * Database driven content is OK, as long as it is not the main page,
> currently our cvs-web and search engines work OK in the overall
> mirror strategy.
>
> * Other topic for dynamic content: supported hardware.
>
> * Other topic for dynamic content: I would like if cvsweb somehow
> could locate all files relevant to a specific commit, I know this
> is somewhat difficult but It would be nice anyway.
>
> * Other topic for dynamic content: HTML'ed page with the last 24h
> of commit logs, ie: pointers into cvsweb to see the diffs.
>
> * Other topic for dynamic content: A place to keep track of patchsets
> up for review, test and comment. Ie: submitter provides patch and
> comments and a page is created, linked to from the patchindex and
> it is added to the "new or updated" patches. submitter can update
> patch as it develops. One way would be to define a convention like:
> $HOME/review/$patchname/{README,*}
>
> I would LOVE to see the day when www.freebsd.org would be the first
> page I turn to in the morning.
Many of these would be great information for DaemonNews to carry, especially
the previous 24 hours of commits and supported hardware. The CVSweb
related items and patchsets are perhaps somewhat less suitable for DN.
--
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