Re: Potential improvements to the homepage?

[David Kastrup]

Andrew Yoon <address@hidden> writes:

> There are certainly many options to explore, many of them quite simple. At
> any rate, over the next few days I'll take a crack at something and see
> what people think. Should future discussions about this belong in the dev
> mailing list? Apologies if this is the wrong place...

Well, yes and no.  The developer list is the right place to discuss
implementation and extensions of LilyPond and "how to do $x".  This may
lead to getting feedback from the user list, of course.

When we are talking about what amounts to changes in the CSS for mere
appearances' sakes, the "how" question is pretty much already answered.
We are not really talking about any extension of functionality (yet?).
I'm not sure all developers read the user list, however.  But I also am
not sure how many of those not reading the user list care about the
appearance of the web page, either.

I haven't seen any proposals for _technical_ changes yet: those may well
see a veto from developers for technical reasons.  As long as the main
topic is the question of style (rather than concrete frame works and
stuff), I don't see much potential for wasted work when an actual
proposal (which needs to go through the developer resources anyway) is
placed on the table only to get "oh, we can't do it in this way because
of $SERVER, $FRAMEWORK, $ACCESSIBILITY, $SECURITY, $WEBSTANDARDS".

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David Kastrup