Re: Status of web redesign?

Florent Daigniere <[email protected]> Sat, 17 Dec 2016 12:23:30 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
So what is the plan for hosting if github pages can't do it?

As I wrote before, expecting release managers to maintain a ruby stack
(on top of the existing java/python one) is a no-go.

Florent

On Sat, 2016-12-17 at 01:27 -0800, Dan Roberts wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
>     Status update. The simple jekyll plugin I wrote works, with a
> couple of known issues. It will allow us to use our existing transifex
> translations unmodified (something I don't think we were going to get
> out-of-the-box anywhere). It depends on the ruby gettext gem. The site
> still needs some massaging to match the transifex strings, but you can
> see the translation work for parts of /about.de/ which is
> automatically generated by the plugin. For each locales/${LOCALE}.po
> there will be a ${PAGE}.${LOCALE} file generated.
> 
> Tomorrow (saturday 12-17) I'm going to fix the known issues with the
> plugin, and QA the translation tags to ensure our translation keys
> match what is already translated (I may consider automating it using
> the existing site generator, we'll see how obnoxious it gets). I'll
> also be implementing a language selector UI.
> 
> The source code is at https://github.com/Ademan-laptop/freenet-website
> -redesign though beware the history is ugly, I will be cleaning it at
> some point, but I wanted to be sure to update before the weekend.
> Obviously with the plugin dependency it is no longer viewable on
> github.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Dan Roberts <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I gave a few updates on IRC but I apologize for not updating the ML,
> > I didn't foresee how long I would be stalled. I've had some personal
> > issues going on which ate not only my weekends but several work days
> > of both last week and this week. I don't expect to lose any more
> > time from the aforementioned issues but it's not impossible.
> > 
> > I intend to finish the Jekyll plugin this afternoon so that we can
> > use existing translations, the proof of concept from the other
> > weekend worked well. After that we can stand it up somewhere for QA.
> > I do need to add a language selector, that is not present in the
> > design we bought so I'll use my best judgement and we'll move it
> > later.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Ian Clarke <[email protected]
> > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Florent Daigniere <nextgens@freen
> > > etproject.org> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 13:40 +0000, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > > > >  Hey guys, it's been quite a while at this point, and we're
> > > > still
> > > > > stuck with the old website.
> > > > > What's the current status of getting the new site up?
> > > > 
> > > > I can't make any progress until there is something to deploy...
> > > > I
> > > > haven't heard from Dan.
> > > 
> > > That's worrying...
> > >  
> > > > > If necessary we should spend some more of our donation to make
> > > > this
> > > > > happen (we've already invested in getting the original design
> > > > done,
> > > > > and yet we've received no benefit from it yet).
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > > > Agreed; a big piece of it is the content re-design (for which I
> > > > haven't
> > > > seen any plan).
> > > 
> > > We start by categorizing our different audiences, I think this has
> > > been discussed.  Users, donors, and developers are the major
> > > categories IIRC.  IMHO the website should focus on the first two,
> > > and this will probably require a limited amount of content.  For
> > > developers a companion wiki is probably the best approach.
> > > 
> > > Ian.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Ian Clarke
> > > Founder, The Freenet Project
> > > Email: [email protected]
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>

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