Re: RFC: Website redesign
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- Dill <sarpulhu@gmail.com>
- Date
- Apr 14, 2008, 15:38 UTC
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Isn't it possible to set up a git repo that has all the web page files and have it set up so the web site updates from that repo. Or just have Petr run a few commands. Or maybe that's what happens already. Then allow a few people to write to that repo. As far as the news go, the web page I set up is easily edited by hand and updated it's just how do we quickly allow updates without bothering people. Heres some more designs:
http://sarpulhu.googlepages.com/git5 http://sarpulhu.googlepages.com/git6 -my personal favorite http://sarpulhu.googlepages.com/git7
Jonas Fonseca wrote:
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> Hello Dill, > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Dill <sarpulhu@gmail.com> wrote: > > I was looking at the main git site and thought that maybe it could be > > done differently. I tried to make it simple and professional looking > > and have all the same information as the old site. I've spend a good > > portion of the day hashing it out and wanted to hear what others > > thought. Worth changing? Like it or not? > > Yes, it is definitely worth changing. In all the user surveys to date people > has commented on the design of the git homepage mentioning words like > ugly, not useful, strangely named, etc. After the last survey I registered > git-scm.org to have a more friendly name. > > Question is what kind of "official" home page is suitable for git? As it is now, > most projects using git provides documentation for what kind of workflow > they recommend for their specific project, and else the git distribution point > on kernel.org has the latest manpages, tutorials etc. supplemented by the > git wiki. > > Your examples capture this very good in the sense that the homepage should > basically be a very simple page that send visitors in the "right" direction for > getting documentation, downloading the latest release, and joining the > community. > I like the restlet.org page with its four basic tasks. As your > examples also suggest > and as a fourth task, it could be nice to also in time fill the void > of having a news > source about git related releases, developer interviews, GSoC info, the Msysgit > Herald, and other interesting stuff happening in the community for people who do > not feel they have the time to read the mailing list. This of course > requires that there > is a small dedicated team for collecting and preparing these updates. I would be > willing to help, but have occasional fall-outs where I do not read the > mailing list. > > Regarding the design/style etc, I am credited for the current one that > Petr forked from > the ELinks homepage. It is ugly, and git deserved better! This is just > to say that I probably > shouldn't be part of this work. I find your redesign proposal 1, 3 and > 4 a too dark or gray. > Number 2 (git2) with its bluish has some nice ideas. The text might be > too small, at least > from what I am seeing and the list menu has a strange coloring. > > If the home page should carry news it needs to have infrastructure so > that we don't need > to bug Petr each time it should be updated. I have commit access to > the git-homepage > repo and maybe Petr could add others as well, but the question is if > we want some web > interface for submitting news. I registered git-scm.org after the last > survey and right now > it is just set up as an alias for git.or.cz. It comes with some PHP > capability which could > serve as a place to develop a redesign, however, I am not hosting it > myself and I don't > know what kind of traffic will be required. > > -- > Jonas Fonseca > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html