Introducing dockapps.net

Hi everyone,

One big problem with the current dockapps webpage I designed on the main 
Window Maker site is that it links to tarballs generated on the fly from 
repo.or.cz.  This is less than ideal, especially for package maintainers 
who want to be able to have a stable location to download tarballs whose 
checksums don't change.  For the autotools packages, it's also easier 
for users to have a "make dist"-generated tarball with all the generated 
files already present, rather than dealing with generating these files 
themselves from the git-generated tarball.

Another, less serious, problem is the ugly urls, e.g., 
http://windowmaker.org/dockapps/?name=wmbiff

To fix both of these problems, I've set up dockapps.net.  Tarballs are 
hosted on-site, so the first problem is fixed.  And urls are nicer, 
e.g., http://www.dockapps.net/wmbiff.

Note that I've used the original tarballs (if I can find them) for all 
the releases from before the git repository.  For the newer, post-git 
releases, I've used the tarballs from either Debian or Gentoo to 
increase the chances of checksums matching other tarballs out in the wild.

Note that the new site is missing the "git snapshot" links that the 
current website has, but does include directions for cloning the repository.

Note that it's still a work in progress -- not all the dockapps 
currently hosted on windowmaker.org are present.  I hope to have that 
task finished up in the coming days.  Once that's done, I'd like to shut 
down the current site and redirect users to the new site.

Ultimately, I plan on continuing to add dockapps from the old dockapps.org.

For the curious, the site uses Jekyll on GitHub pages.  Each dockapp is 
a blog page.  The code is in the "gh-pages" branch of 
https://github.com/d-torrance/dockapps.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!
Doug



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