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From: |
Yavor Doganov |
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Subject: |
www/server tasks.html |
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Date: |
Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:15:36 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Yavor Doganov <yavor> 07/03/17 09:15:36
Modified files:
server : tasks.html
Log message:
Split the tasks into sections, as per Arne Babenhauserheide's
<address@hidden> suggestion (Closes: RT #331406).
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/tasks.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.39&r2=1.40
Patches:
Index: tasks.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/server/tasks.html,v
retrieving revision 1.39
retrieving revision 1.40
diff -u -b -r1.39 -r1.40
--- tasks.html 16 Mar 2007 15:25:59 -0000 1.39
+++ tasks.html 17 Mar 2007 09:15:16 -0000 1.40
@@ -23,10 +23,13 @@
BEFORE you do any work on them.
</p>
-<ul>
- <li>Investigate how www.gnu.org could provide better accessibility to
+<h3 id="accessibility">Accessibility</h3>
+
+<p>
+ Investigate how www.gnu.org could provide better accessibility to
all regardless of disability.
- <ul>
+</p>
+<ul>
<li>A good place to start is the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/WAI/";>Web Accessibility
Initiative (WAI)</a>.</li>
@@ -38,8 +41,11 @@
organizations, and companies could check with them.</li>
<li>Disabled users of the web could also be interviewed, and perhaps
even added to the webmasters team for this task and others.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="scripting">Site Scripting</h3>
+
+<ul>
<li>Improve the existing ht://dig search facility and/or install
additional search facilities for the FSF/GNU web site.</li>
<!-- Removed the link to manual-indexing.txt for the "email -->
@@ -54,12 +60,65 @@
page can list new events when they are added. One simple way to do
this is to have it simply email webmasters every time a new event is
added, and ask them to add it manually.</li>
+ <li><a name="fun">in directory /fun/ include</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li>cgi-bin scripts that
+ <ul>
+ <li>conduct a dialog with GNU Emacs's doctor.el and
+ convert it into HTML.</li>
+ <li>get a zippyism from GNU Emacs's yow.el and
+ convert it into HTML.</li>
+ <li>feed
+ zippyisms to GNU Emacs's doctor and
+ convert it into HTML.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <p>
+ Roland McGrath has done some of this on his <a
+ href="http://www.frob.com/~roland";>home pages</a>. Ask him if you
+ can copy his work over to http://www.gnu.org.
+ </p>
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="conversions">Format Conversions</h3>
+
+<ul>
<li>Turn the <a href="/copyleft/gpl-faq.html">GPL FAQ</a> from an HTML
document into a canonical XML format, that we can easily generate HTML from.
One possibility would be to use DocBook, since it has some tags for handling
FAQ lists. (This task is currently awaiting someone to add
<code><qanda></code> tag support in the DocBook to Texinfo
translators.)</li>
+
+ <li>We are looking for people to volunteer to convert documentation
+ from various formats to the
+ <a href="/software/texinfo/texinfo.html">Texinfo</a>
+ format. This is something we need
+ occasionally. We would like to have a list of people we could ask
+ on these occasions. If you want to volunteer, please send mail to
+ <a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.</li>
+ <li>Rewrite the various philosophy pages and bulletins in
+ <a href="/software/texinfo/texinfo.html">Texinfo</a>
+ and
+ convert to HTML using texi2html.
+ They could then be easily included in:
+ <ul>
+ <li>the <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/GNUinfo";>/gnu/GNUinfo</a>
+ subdirectory of
+ <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/";>ftp.gnu.org</a></li>
+ <li>the etc/ subdirectory of the GNU Emacs distribution</li>
+ <li>in the GNU system's Info tree</li>
+ <li>other useful locations.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="writing">Writing Web Pages</h3>
+
+<ul>
<li>Write web pages for GNU programs that lacks web pages on our server or
whose web pages are obsolete using our <a
href="/software/boilerplate_software.html">software boilerplate</a> as a
@@ -85,66 +144,28 @@
writing by hand a more easily navigated sitemap.</li>
</ul>
</li>
- <li>Help
- <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">translate
- GNU web pages</a> from English into other languages.
- You can either join an existing translation team,
- or form a new one.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h3 id="graphics">Graphics</h3>
+
+<ul>
<li>Remove JPEG artifacts
from all PNG pictures. You do this by removing "loose" pixels and
turning them into 1bpp (in case of black/white drawings).</li>
<li>Create new <a href="/graphics/graphics.html">graphics</a>
for our web pages. We mostly want to have nicer drawings like the ones
we already have and perhaps in more colors.</li>
- <li>We are looking for people to volunteer to convert documentation
- from various formats to the
- <a href="/software/texinfo/texinfo.html">Texinfo</a>
- format. This is something we need
- occasionally. We would like to have a list of people we could ask
- on these occasions. If you want to volunteer, please send mail to
- <a href="mailto:address@hidden";><address@hidden></a>.</li>
- <li>Rewrite the various philosophy pages and bulletins in
- <a href="/software/texinfo/texinfo.html">Texinfo</a>
- and
- convert to HTML using texi2html.
- They could then be easily included in:
- <ul>
- <li>the <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/GNUinfo";>/gnu/GNUinfo</a>
- subdirectory of
- <a href="http://ftp.gnu.org/";>ftp.gnu.org</a></li>
- <li>the etc/ subdirectory of the GNU Emacs distribution</li>
- <li>in the GNU system's Info tree</li>
- <li>other useful locations.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li><a name="fun">in directory /fun/ include</a>
- <ul>
- <li>cgi-bin scripts that
- <ul>
- <li>conduct a dialog with GNU Emacs's doctor.el and
- convert it into HTML.</li>
- <li>get a zippyism from GNU Emacs's yow.el and
- convert it into HTML.</li>
- <li>feed
- zippyisms to GNU Emacs's doctor and
- convert it into HTML.</li>
- </ul>
+</ul>
- <p>
- Roland McGrath has done some of this on his <a
- href="http://www.frob.com/~roland";>home pages</a>. Ask him if you
- can copy his work over to http://www.gnu.org.
- </p>
- </li>
- </ul>
- </li>
+<h3 id="valid">Validation and Broken Links</h3>
+
+<ul>
<li>
Check all the web pages for well formedness, consistency with
our HTML style sheet, and webmaster guidelines. All web pages need to be
valid to
their specific DTD, (the <a href="http://validator.w3.org";>W3C
Validator</a> is a good place to start).
</li>
-
<li>
Help is needed
<a href="/server/standards/README.webmastering.html#poldeadlink">repairing
@@ -159,11 +180,23 @@
</li>
</ul>
+<h3 id="l10n">Localization</h3>
+
+<p>Help <a href="/server/standards/README.translations.html">translate
+GNU web pages</a> from English into other languages. You can either
+join an existing translation team, or form a new one. Check the
+<a
href="/server/standards/README.translations.html#TranslationsUnderway">existing
+translation teams</a>.</p>
+
+
</div>
<!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" -->
<div id="footer">
+
+<p><a href="/server/server.html">About www.gnu.org</a></p>
+
<p>
Please send FSF & GNU inquiries to
<a href="mailto:address@hidden";><em>address@hidden</em></a>.
@@ -175,9 +208,11 @@
</p>
<p>
- Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007<br />
- Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301, USA
- <br />
+ Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
+ </p>
+ <address>51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA</address>
+ <p>
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.
</p>
@@ -185,7 +220,7 @@
<p>
Updated:
<!-- timestamp start -->
- $Date: 2007/03/16 15:25:59 $ $Author: karl $
+ $Date: 2007/03/17 09:15:16 $
<!-- timestamp end -->
</p>
</div>
@@ -196,7 +231,7 @@
<!-- and that it is like this "2001, 2002" not this "2001-2002." -->
<div id="translations">
- <h4>Translations of this page</h4>
+ <h3>Translations of this page</h3>
<!-- Please keep this list alphabetical, and in the original -->
<!-- language if possible, otherwise default to English -->
@@ -212,9 +247,12 @@
<!-- http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm -->
<ul class="translations-list">
- <li><a href="/server/tasks.html">English</a></li>
- <li><a href="/server/tasks.es.html">Español</a></li> <!-- Spanish
-->
- <li><a href="/server/tasks.nn.html">Norsk (nynorsk)</a></li> <!--
Norwegian (nynorsk) -->
+ <!-- English -->
+ <li><a href="/server/tasks.html">English</a> [en]</li>
+ <!-- Spanish -->
+ <li><a href="/server/tasks.es.html">Español</a> [es]</li>
+ <!-- Norwegian (nynorsk) -->
+ <li><a href="/server/tasks.nn.html">Norsk (nynorsk)</a> [nn]</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>