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fonts got bigger. suck. |
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otherwise, yay for almost finished site. |
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On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 01:06 -0500, Curtis Napier wrote: |
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> I got together with the project leads and we finalized some decisions. |
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> The site, http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org, is now in it's final state |
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> except for the search and donate. |
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> The search is going to be implemented using google as a back end as an |
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> interim solution. The only free version of google site search that is |
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> available to us is the normal one that anyone can use. We are not the |
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> right kind of non-profit to get the free, customized search. This means |
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> you will be taken out of the gentoo site to a google controlled page. |
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> The good news is that it will allow us to do a very comprehensive |
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> advanced search page where you can fine grain your search to any of the |
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> gentoo web sites. You will be able to search documents by language, |
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> forums, developer pages, etc.... We will also hook into the bugs and |
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> forum native search engines to further enhance the search. You will be |
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> able to specify google or forum search as the search backend when you |
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> search the forum. |
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> We will be investigating alternative search engines that we can host |
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> ouselves so that we have maximum control. I won't be able to get around |
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> to that until after the other gentoo sites are migrated to the new |
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> design so google will be the default for a while. If anyone wants to do |
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> some preliminary research and start submitting suggestions I would |
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> appreciate it. |
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> I'll be setting up the search over the next week or two so stay tuned. |
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> As you can see Aarons reference site has been implemented pretty |
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> accurately now. Comments and suggestions are welcome. |
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> I've had individual reports from a few key people and can safely say |
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> that it renders correctly in all browsers with the exception of IE5 on |
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> mac. I decided that it was not used enough to justify the hack it would |
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> require to support it and there are alternative browsers for the mac all |
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> the way back to OS8.X that don't have outstanding security issues as IE5 |
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> does. I hope the few users of this browser will understand. |
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> There was a small bug in konqueror that I finally got sorted out, thanks |
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> to dangle for being my tester. |
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> I'll report back when the search is ready for wide testing. |
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> Thanks everybody |
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