I am interested. Zach On 12/8/06, Dave Ahn <ahn at orion.netrek.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 01:57:12PM -0500, Andrew K. Bressen wrote: > > > > James Cameron <quozl at us.netrek.org> writes: > > > Let me know if you think the genocide content should be in a darcs repo. > > > > Yes, absolutely. > > I disagree on this one. I'd rather see the Netrek Home Page content in > a semi-access-controlled Wiki than in what is essentially a source code > repository. The major problem with the Netrek Home Page in the past has > been individual control and limited access where one or the few > maintainer(s) become a bottleneck to maintaining active content. I > count myself as one of these individuals. > > > What are the scripts written in? What do I need > > to install to replicate site functionality? (I have a home linux box > > with apache and php already... do I need a cms?). > > Genocide's netrek pages are written in PHP. I would prefer to move away > from this because it requires one (or a group) of trusted maintainers > with unrestricted access to one of the main netrek infrastructure > servers. Finding a balance between open host access and open editorial > access can be difficult, and a Wiki is a great candidate. > > > To catch the rest of you up, we need some webpage work done. The > > genocide.netrek.org site (former www.netrek.org) looks to my mind > > fantastic, and it'd be a huge amount of work to come up with something > > else as good. If we're going to work on the webpages, I think the > > effort is better placed towards updating and extending the > > approximately 250 pages of existing content. So I'm trying to make > > that happen. > > There are three reasons why the Netrek home pages (various incarnations) > are in such a bad state: > > 1) The previous maintainer is gone, and nobody qualified has stepped up > to help assist in taking a leading role in maintaining the web pages. > Several people have volunteered for certain parts of the Netrek home > page, however, and they are waiting for set up and a lead. > 2) Some existing owners/maintainers of other, more active netrek web pages > prefer to keep their content separate from www.netrek.org rather than > as an integral part of it. There is nothing wrong with this, as that > is the nature of the WWW. > 3) I have not had the time to move the genocide content over to > www.netrek.org's Wiki. > > If you or anyone else would be interested in a combined effort to > (re)build the Netrek home page, I'd be happy to discuss this and can > offer the appropriate access. > > Dave > > _______________________________________________ > netrek-dev mailing list > netrek-dev at us.netrek.org > http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev >