Re: linking to savannah

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:19:28 +0100,
marco_g wrote:
> 
> Quoting Marcus Brinkmann <address@hidden>:
> 
> > I realize that there are problems updating the web pages right now.
> > We'll have to sort that out some time.
> 
> Did someone contact the savannah maintainers?

I think ams tried, but I heard from another source (and you can see it
on the sv front page) that the sv people have security issues to work
out which is a higher priority than getting this fixed.

> > Anyway, that's no reason not to think about improvements.  I just
> > checked and it seems there is no visible link to the Savannah web site
> > right now.  As there is quite some activity going on there (for our
> > standards), now that we are seriously using it, how about adding that.
> > Maybe in the side menu (jsut below related projects), but also in the
> > development section, I guess.
> 
> Yes, this is quite important.  I even think we have to link to some wiki 
> pages.
> For example there is a small task list on the wiki and a task list on
> savannah.  All those lists should be reachable from hurd.gnu.org (IMHO).

If you say the wiki, do you mean gnu fans?  we already link to that.
I don't want to give special purpose emphasis on the wiki (like,
"there is this task list", because I am not checking the wiki on a
regular basis, so I don't know how useful it is.

Also, from past experience, I don't think that every single bit of
random information should be on hurd.gnu.org.  That will just lead to
a bloody mess of out of date information, because nobody is
maintaining it.  The current site has about just the level of detail
as can be maintained by us without too much trouble.  I don't object
against linking external resources in a few places, but the external
resources must be stable and worthwhile enough to do this.

The gnufans wiki is such a reliable place and we link to it in the
other projects page.

> It is also important that the l4-hurd page (the unofficial one) will be 
> removed
> and that we add our own.

Bloody hell, we still link to l4hurd!  I had no idea.

> I can work on the first thing (the tasks stuff).  Just remind me of all things
> I promissed to do when CVS works again for the webpages.
> 
> There are also some other pages about the Hurd on gnu.org, someone has to look
> them up and make sure they are up-to-date.

haha, good luck :)

Thanks,
Marcus