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On Monday 26 March 2007, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> Many projects have old and nasty webpages. This has been a problem within |
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> gentoo since before I arrived and probably has been a problem since we |
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> started having webpages. One of the issues I wish to address is whether |
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> or not writing webpages in XML (Guide or Project or something_else) is |
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> just too much of a barrier for many people. I've personally always been |
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> pretty much a 'copy something that works and edit the bits I need' kind of |
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> a guy. There is certainly a large body of work to steal^H^H^H^H^Hcopy |
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> from. However when something you are working on doesn't fit inside of |
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> something that has already been done it becomes very difficult to make it |
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> 'fit' into our existing XML structure. |
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i dont think webpages are old because of the guidexml ... more because people |
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simply forget to update them as most of our development happens beyond the |
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website space |
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guidexml does have a small learning curve, but i'd much rather that than |
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developers writing their own html because then nothing on our site would look |
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cohesive ... as it is actually, i dislike our web sites that dont match the |
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basic gentoo.org (*cough* overlays.g.o *cough*) |
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-mike |