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On 12/16/12 13:53, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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>> 1. Even MediaWiki (wiki.gentoo.org) looks better than www.gentoo.org. |
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>> That's impressive-bad. |
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>> People still think of Gentoo as a ricer distro that's broken all |
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>> the time, when in reality, it's one of the most stable. No one |
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>> would suspect that anything has changed, though, since the |
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>> homepage hasn't since before I could drink beer. |
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>> It makes the entire distro look unmaintained. |
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> Yeah. Stable. Hehe... |
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> The problem with the entire webpage is that is coded in an extremely obscure |
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> way. It is probably easier to 100% replace it from scratch than to modify and |
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> improve it. Yes, I've tried to analyze once how e.g. the table of blog posts |
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> or the GLSA announcements on the main page come together. |
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> My personal suggestion would be to code an internal replacement and |
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> transparently port more and more pages to it (as a change mostly invisible |
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> from outside, with two content management systems running concurrently for a |
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> transition period). Once the transition is complete, improvements can be made |
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> in a more sweeping way. |
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> How to do this, however, and what software to target should probably be |
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> decided by people who know more than me... and in the end it all boils down to |
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> "who has the time and motivation". |
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This sounds reasonable, but it's a huge project either way. No one is |
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ever going to have the time or motivation, thus the suggestion to do a |
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bug bounty for it. |
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