Re: Notes from GNUstep quarterly meet up...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Gregory Casamento wrote:
> I really wish you had joined the discussion earlier.  I will make the 
> next one on a Saturday so that you can attend.   The ONE thing most of 
> us agreed on readily was that the website needs a revamping.   The 
> general design can stay the same, but the content NEEDS to be updated 
> and more easily accessible.  The current design is NOT conducive to 
> people learning about the project in my opinion.

I couldn't join at that hour-time... next time a bit later and possibly 
on Thursday should be possible. But it was really an impossible week and 
Friday. I would have enjoyed speaking to some of the participants. More 
on GNUStep than our site though!

website is one of the topics that comes up from time to time as a 
critique, but once a cool-head is maintained and though after, as often, 
things are not so easy.

Last time we reached a compromise and I still stand to it: it made 
nobody really happy but made nobody too unhappy: proof of the balance. 
Essentially core things to the project did not change, same topics, same 
goals. However several things evolved and many things broke.

I spent hours in a deep review of our website and found countless broken 
things, a lot rotted! Or certain things were actually never finished. 
Reference to non-existing SVN repositories, obsolete concepts, 
releases... we had a lot of things improved.

Lots of them fixed and updated already! But I bet several are yet to be 
found.

To be more productive, instead of just using feelings and sensations, I 
will attempt to start some specific topics on the Mailing List so we can 
discuss some core issues that need to be addressed for a better user 
experience.

Riccardo