Re: New website design: help needed
"Yury V. Zaytsev via mc-devel" <mc-devel-+hD5IHI5XseWCegYutOAJTiNl0CLU6MPYPYVAmT7z5s@public.gmane.org> Thu, 20 Mar 2025 12:28:09 +0100
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--===============5900279627877467685== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_7EA1D50C-9761-4C89-964A-D40F3E96ECA8" --Apple-Mail=_7EA1D50C-9761-4C89-964A-D40F3E96ECA8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > On 20. Mar 2025, at 12:08, Oswald Buddenhagen via mc-devel = <mc-devel-+hD5IHI5XseWCegYutOAJTiNl0CLU6MPYPYVAmT7z5s@public.gmane.org> wrote: >=20 > On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 02:46:55PM +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev via mc-devel = wrote: >> I'm now working on salvaging and archiving the Trac content, and >> hopefully I'll be able to switch over soon. >>=20 > we have a weird situation right now, though: the home page is still > trac, and so it's loudly advertising its ticket tracker ... which is = now > defunct. Does it? If so, could you please tell me where? I set up redirects after = the move and thought it would be almost impossible to get into the Trac = tracker (except for logged in users), and in any case it shouldn't be = possible to change tickets. I wanted to be able to easily get into Trac after the move, so I could = check it out if something felt weird about a particular GitHub issue, = but of course that would also be possible if I moved it to old.m-c.org. = It's just extra work that I deprioritized to get the new site done = sooner. > given that the new homepage appears to be largely ready, i'd suggest > switching over asap, and only having a few backlinks to trac (then > hosted as old.m-c.org) where necessary. I don't think backlinks to Trac would be necessary. There's still some = content to be processed, but it's fine if it ends up in the archive = repository without explicit references to it, as far as I'm concerned. > if re-homing trac is too laborious, the old page needs some quick = hacks > to guide users to the new locations, unambiguously. Nothing is too laborious. It's just that for the last two weeks I've had = to deal with some real life stuff instead of working full time on mc. = And wonder of wonders, it shows right away! On top of that, I keep running into things like this that should be = better taken care of before the move, and it's a lot of work: https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/issues/4570 I was able to resume work on the website today, and the general idea = would be to release it next week, unless something comes in between... Sorry for the lack of transparency on the progress, but with the = overwhelming amount of help I've received throughout the process, I = didn't feel like spending any more time reporting unless asked directly. > btw, i noticed that on the now live GH issue tracker some > blocking/blocked-by links still point to the mc-test repo. i think = this > might be affecting tickets that were already closed at the time of the > migration. This sounds extremely weird. Could you please give me some links to = check it out? --Apple-Mail=_7EA1D50C-9761-4C89-964A-D40F3E96ECA8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"></head><body style=3D"overflow-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: = after-white-space;"><br><div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div>On 20. Mar = 2025, at 12:08, Oswald Buddenhagen via mc-devel = <mc-devel-+hD5IHI5XseWCegYutOAJTiNl0CLU6MPYPYVAmT7z5s@public.gmane.org> wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at = 02:46:55PM +0100, Yury V. Zaytsev via mc-devel wrote:<br><blockquote = type=3D"cite">I'm now working on salvaging and archiving the Trac = content, and<br>hopefully I'll be able to switch over = soon.<br><br></blockquote>we have a weird situation right now, though: = the home page is still<br>trac, and so it's loudly advertising its = ticket tracker ... which is = now<br>defunct.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Does it? = If so, could you please tell me where? I set up redirects after the move = and thought it would be almost impossible to get into the Trac tracker = (except for logged in users), and in any case it shouldn't be possible = to change tickets.</div><div><br></div><div>I wanted to be able to = easily get into Trac after the move, so I could check it out if = something felt weird about a particular GitHub issue, but of course that = would also be possible if I moved it to old.m-c.org. It's just = extra work that I deprioritized to get the new site done = sooner.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div><div>given = that the new homepage appears to be largely ready, i'd = suggest<br>switching over asap, and only having a few backlinks to trac = (then<br>hosted as old.m-c.org) where = necessary.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think = backlinks to Trac would be necessary. There's still some content to = be processed, but it's fine if it ends up in the archive repository = without explicit references to it, as far as I'm = concerned.</div><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div><div>if re-homing = trac is too laborious, the old page needs some quick hacks<br>to guide = users to the new locations, = unambiguously.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nothing = is too laborious. It's just that for the last two weeks I've had to deal = with some real life stuff instead of working full time on mc. And = wonder of wonders, it shows right away!</div><div><br></div><div>On top = of that, I keep running into things like this that should be <span = style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, = 0);">better </span>taken care of before the move, and it's a lot of = work:</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/issues/4570">https://githu= b.com/MidnightCommander/mc/issues/4570</a></div><div><br></div><div>I = was able to resume work on the website today, and the general idea would = be to release it next week, unless something comes in = between...</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for the lack of transparency = on the progress, but with the overwhelming amount of help I've received = throughout the process, I didn't feel like spending any more time = reporting unless asked directly.</div><div><br></div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div><div>btw, i noticed that on the now live GH issue = tracker some<br>blocking/blocked-by links still point to the mc-test = repo. i think this<br>might be affecting tickets that were already = closed at the time of = the<br>migration.<br></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>This sounds = extremely weird. Could you please give me some links to check it = out?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_7EA1D50C-9761-4C89-964A-D40F3E96ECA8-- --===============5900279627877467685== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline -- mc-devel mailing list mc-devel-+hD5IHI5XseWCegYutOAJTiNl0CLU6MPYPYVAmT7z5s@public.gmane.org https://lists.midnight-commander.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel --===============5900279627877467685==--