Tracking a conversation & doc regarding website redesign Reproducible: Always
So, to progress I think we should use the comments to chat about ideas, etc. We can create a doc (using restructured text if markup is needed) & attach it to this bug. That way its small & we can version it somewhat. Cheers
What happened to the old website redesign contest winner?
Glad to finally see some more movement on the long awaited website redesign. Ive just done some searching to help anyone (including myself) who missed what i think was the last redesign effort back in 2005/2006. CVS contents of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org - http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-projects/www-redesign/htdocs/ Old wwwredesign mailing archive - http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.www-redesign/ Images of what the redesign was starting to look like - http://dev.gentoo.org/~neysx/wwwredesign/index.html
I think we need a new contest. We also need to decide on a better way of picking new design than a poll on forums where 0,000001% of community voted on a design which proved to be unimplementable for over 3 years...
For fans of Git, the redesign work that was done & referenced above is now available on github here: http://github.com/alistair/gentoo-unofficial-wwwredesign/tree/master I have a private fork, where I have made some minor, but (to me) important css changes. Those changes are available at the following pastebin locations: home.css http://pastebin.com/m11491d56 main.css http://pastebin.com/m6eef3530 github might be a nice place to continue the work, as its free and makes forking/merging fairly easy.
Matt, you realize that the Gentoo infra does run a git setup, right?
(In reply to comment #6) > Matt, you realize that the Gentoo infra does run a git setup, right? > Well yes, I was aware of that. Guess I'll send the request/template to infra. Thanks for the reminder.
Xavier, I would really appreciate hearing your thoughts about this, positive or negative. Thanks!
I am going to make the request to infra for a git repo on overlays. So, who wants in, as in committers? Also, if everyone likes, I will call it proj/redub3
(In reply to comment #9) > I am going to make the request to infra for a git repo on overlays. > > So, who wants in, as in committers? /me raises his hand > > Also, if everyone likes, I will call it proj/redub3 > Sounds fine to me. Operation Redub3 :)
Sure.
(In reply to comment #8) > Xavier, > > I would really appreciate hearing your thoughts about this, positive or > negative. Thanks! TBH, I am quite tired with all those Gentoo Website Redesigns. FYI, when the redesign contest failed (a bit before actually as I knew where it was going), I spent 2 weeks doing my own redesign. I had absolutely no prior experience, had never even coded a simple hml page and I came up with gentoo.neysx.org It was not and is not meant to replace www.gentoo.org I learned 2 things: 1. Anyone can do 90% of the job 2. The last 10% suck Nichoj gave it a go and came up with gentest.neysx.org I host it and I have kept it up-to-date as far as xsl features on www.gentoo.org are concerned. gentest.neysx.org might be easier to restyle. I might even edit the XSL of gentest.neysx.org to allow the same kind of skin choosing as on gentoo.neysx.org if anyone provide a patch for the html BTW, I use a simple list of skins in an XML file: http://gentoo.neysx.org/styles.xml?passthru=1 Still interested to yet again redesign www.gentoo.org? Go ahead, do it, get it approved, get it hosted, be ready to maintain it.
As this bug got opened after I have shown interest in the project, an interest which I now do no longer have, we can just as well close it, right?
