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Re: [Bug-gnubg] documentation: website ground rules
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Alef Rosenbaum |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gnubg] documentation: website ground rules |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Jul 2003 16:10:45 +0100 |
How is it going, Alef? Still studying php and mysql? I must say I like
your
sketch for the webpage.
Achim and I have been communicating by email and phone about the
homepage. We're going to use Drupal and some webspace of Achim's while
it's under construction. Right now I'm still a bit stuck getting the
encryption worked out on my Mac using GnuPG and ssh keys, sure I'll
figure it out just need patience and perseverance...
Sans serif fonts look good, and I don't mind if it looks like the FIBS
site.
These are the categories I would like:
About
Downloads
Windows
Mac
Linux
Source
CVS
Documentation
Manuals
FAQ
Tutorials
Tips and Tricks
Screenshots
Contact
Mailing list
Mailing list archive
Links and resources
GNU Backgammon training program
How to compile gnubg for windows
Links to master games in .sgf
Other links
(Maybe something about the bug tracker and bug reporing as well?)
That's a clear Table of Contents for us to begin with. Should there be
a short News section at the top listing any important changes/updates
in the past month? I'm thinking no more than a sentence or two
reporting on the progress. Nice to have a little something there to
encourage people to return to the site every so often.
The main audience at this stage is backgammon players. By backgammon
players I mean those who are familiar with the game backgammon and
play at
a weekly club or in major tournaments or at a serious servers. I don't
like
to exclude anyone that's not familiar with the game, but I don't think
those should be in our main target audience. The target audience
should be
players that wants to report bugs and contibute with feedback.
This is pretty much what I was assuming, it's good to have it clarified.
The timescale question is not rediculous. The answer is that there's no
timescale and no roadmap. Should we develop a timescale and a roadmap?
I have no previous experience of open source projects, but it seems to
me that any timescale set would be fairly artificial and probably not
affect the progress that much? Though I am curious if there's any
ballpark figure for the release of version 1: six months, two years?
I like clean and easy web pages. You can look at other simple
web-pages for
other GNU projects that we can compare our own project to:
http://www.gimp.org
http://www.octave.org
http://www.gnome.org (just redesigned!)
http://www.gnupg.org
http://lilypond.org/stable/
http://gcc.gnu.org/
http://www.texmacs.org/
http://www.gtk.org
http://www.r-project.org/
Take a look at this pages, and you will see how other GNU project make
their web sits. I guess you will get some kind of idea.
-Øystein
Thanks, I'll have a good look through these sites.
Alef