Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 21:29:10 +0100 From: Josef El-Rayes <josef@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: sense of gallery Message-ID: <20040228202910.GA306@jenny.daemon.li>
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--EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable hi friends! i start questioning the sense of the gallery part of the website. the idea of listing people who use freebsd=20 for their website is a nice one. on the one side we can say "look x,y and z use freebsd" and on the other user says "hey my homepage is listed on freebsd.org". advertisement for both sides. the problem is maintance. adding an entry is no problem but regular checking, whether the link did not turn into a porn site in the meantime (yes, this happened quite often lately) or just returns 404. it is not a problem to automatically check for 404 but content checking is not as trivial, and after all we have about 5000 pages listed. i also think, that practically, (although listing is in theory a good thing, as outlined above), the gallery brings only little benefit. okay, for a small project, like a webgallery, showing users real use cases of the software, is helpful, but i do not think that listing 5000 webservers who use (or used at the time of getting listed) FreeBSD helps. to come to an end i think it would help us more, when we just list a small number of big names, like Yahoo!, that use FreeBSD, as an advertisment for us and remove the other entries, which are just too hard to maintain. -josef --=20 Josef El-Rayes (__) Email: josef@daemon.li \\\'',)=20 Web: http://daemon.li/ \/ \ ^ FreeBSD: josef@FreeBSD.org .\._/_) --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iQEVAwUBQED6FlnFItmnnbU8AQKHLQf9G06ScvJkyVEtq7NNULJak72ln69cvsbp 0j7A4YqWQu43isTcSWwoyhkjNm8GOjHb4NiUR7N2ZjIu/z7DvtrfhyHVXRHGMDGO g4TlkIfnhzHl61chgibsWT5jAQsFUGVDOwy+IWTpxCwaTTSqZLH+RFeqvs7pIVim n2vdpnNV4aOM89PXAcXDH1cOqJIwz9qY1/w3QAOSqC5XA0L6ZxCHNT628qwYTE3l OvZanEJPZRL9XV53GfH6RCFDPnn/KRE9XkpxubcTNEoWoyEH4yIHph+A60UKBEJo l1RBe2VEl3rbi+2nvyYj2o7uPcZfeKWJYv5f8CQEPSTTywoGFjCiGw== =M+O1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --EVF5PPMfhYS0aIcm--
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