Bug#783670: www.debian.org: Update w.d.o/misc/children-distros web page

Tomas Pospisek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
Message-ID <55414BBA.2090203__20434.4978010797$1430343933$gmane$org@sourcepole.ch>
Am 29.04.2015 um 01:18 schrieb Laura Arjona Reina:

> The Children Distros Debian page is filled with many stale entries that need to
> be updated in order to keep the listing both relevant and current, and new
> items should be added when new children distros are developed.
> 
> On the other hand, a Derivatives/Census is maintained in the wiki (with
> different purpose), so ideally the efforts to keep any of both lists updated
> should help to improve the other list.
> 
> Proposed workflow
> 
> 0.- Have a look at the source code of the children-distros page:
> 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/misc/children-
> distros.wml?view=markup
> 
> For each children distro, name and description are provided, and after that,
> some comments lines should be present or added with the following info:
> 
> STATUS:
> Date added: YYYY-MM-DD
> Last reviewed: YYYY-MM-DD
> Review/Comments:
> 1.- Pick a distro for which those comment lines are not present or the "Last
> reviewed" date is more than one year ago.
> 
> 2.- Review the name, description and links of the distro, and update the text
> if necessary. Please check that links are not broken and try to provide
> information from a source of the original distro itself, if possible (if not,
> provide external links).
> 
> 3.- With the information retrieved, write an update for the paragraph of the
> children distro (or write a new paragraph for a new distro to be included, in
> its place, in alphabetical order). For updates, at least the line "Last
> reviewed:" should be added/changed with the current date.
> 
> 4.- Send a patch (or the info itself) to the corresponding bug report (linked
> in Teams/Webmaster).
> 
> 5.- Check the corresponding information about the distro in Derivatives/Census
> with the information that you gathered, and provide the corresponding updates
> to the Census wiki page, if needed.
> 
> Note: We would like to thank your contributions! If you want to be listed in
> https://contributors.debian.org/ , register an account in Alioth, the Debian
> forge, related to the email you use for sending the patch or the wiki edition.
> 
> Team Contributors
> 
> We welcome interested parties and suggestions.
> 
> You can contact Laura Arjona from the Webmaster Team in order to get help on
> contributing to this task

* First of all I think going through debian-www/webwml is much too
  heavyweight. Changing something in the wiki takes minutes. Changing
  something via debian-www takes something between minutes and months,
  depending on available eyeballs, luck etc. - it's too much effort and
  waiting. So I'd suggest to completely move it off into the wiki.

* There was some list of some sorts in the wiki, that was based on a
  form-like wiki page, that you could fill out, and once you submitted
  that form, that entry would get added to the list. Unfortunately I
  can't remember which page that was. But I think that would be
  something useful to maintain the Children's Distros page with.
  I *think* the page was maintained/programmed by Paul Wise,
  but I'm not sure, you might want to ping him.

Thanks,
*t
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