Hi, On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:48:21PM -0700, Dill wrote: > Perhaps we should just make the home page a wiki! It would work really > good! If we use a theme like they do at wiki.ubuntu.com or somewhere > else we could make it look really nice for a home page. Then once it's > set up, no one has to manage the page, worry about commits, who's > doing what, etc, and just have the pages edited and worked on by the > community at large who register at the site to edit. (Unlike the wiki > in use now something would have to be done to stop the spam, like > having those boxes at registration where you have pick the letters > out) Once set up it would simplify things. Do I dare say that Hg uses > the wiki idea. Works but their theme really looks horrible. Of course > git would do it better. ;) Ours would be way more pretty! Anyone else > think a wiki would work for home page? If we could get some work done > on the theme on moinmoin and get it upgraded and completely set up we > could do a mockup of what it could look like and if people like it > just get rid of the old and have the wiki page be the start page. It > would also solve the news problem as I'm willing and I'm sure others > would too edit to make sure it's up to date. let's keep two things separate here: design and content. Design-wise, it does not matter if it is wiki or not, it is a completely different issue. And making the wiki look good would be non-trivial amount of work and the benefits seem unclear to me - so far, we aren't exactly drowning in patches for the website either (though I admit that some of them might have been lost anyway if the contributor was unlucky and not persistent enough ;-). -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- J. W. von Goethe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
