Re: website issues and comment-discussion

[John Mandereau]

Le dimanche 03 janvier 2010 à 10:03 +0000, Graham Percival a écrit :
> Because I'm a bad person and should be taken to task over it?  I
> always mean to go back and fix it,

I didn't intend to do anything else with the comment I added.  There are
many other issues with the website I'm going to report accompanied with
a patch, but for this one I was stuck on making any good suggestion, so
I dumped a comment.  Remember that you told me the website was ready
enough for translations, so I didn't expect to find such an almost empty
node without a @help red box or comment; I didn't want to complain by
email without any suggestion, because you've already expressed enough
your deception about the lack of contributors to the website, so I just
dumped this comment, and will do it again whenever such a sitation
arises again and there is no dedicated person to work on the website.


>  but I keep on getting dragged into
> working on other things.

You work on so many things that you can't make sure to fix and polish
all of them yourself, and I still see nothing wrong that you put some
comments in the source rather than writing it on a private list or
sending an email in a time frame when nobody else is available for
tackling it.


> Keep a piece of paper next to your computer.  I have two sheets of
> lilypond material; I cross of items as I get to them.  When one sheet
> is about 80% full, I copy any remaining items on to a new piece of
> paper.

I have such a note using Gnote of my GNOME computer desktop, which is
more than enough for what I do related to LilyPond, because I don't have
to quickly draw diagrams and tables like in math.


> Hmm.  The info on that page doesn't need to be in the info and pdf,
> right?

That's correct.


>   If that's true, then it could just be an offhanging html file
> like the current translations.html.in.  (with the link from the
> footer, as in the old webpage)

The contents of these two files should be included and surrounded with
@ifhtml, so that the HTML files use the CSS and have the navigation bar.
I won't look at this before next week-end, though, as I'm busy going
back to Italy this week.


> > If we keep this node, then we should add some more text, maybe taking
> > inspiration from the introduction of the essay on the old website.
> 
> I'm not opposed to adding more text to that node.

You deleted my comment, but I haven't found where is this issue
registered now; this is not very productive.

Best,
John

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