Re: Website Updates

[David Bateman]

Bill Denney wrote:

> Second, I'd like to update the projects page 
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/projects.html).  This was 
> autogenerated from projects.texi apparently, so the place to start 
> with this would be finding then cleaning up projects.texi.  If it does 
> not exist (I couldn't find it by searching the CVS of the website or 
> the source), then I'd like to start to clean up what's there and 
> update it.


The PROJECTS file is part of all octave distributes and is in the root 
directory. There are a large number of things that should probably be 
dropped from the file though, either since they are resolve or perhaps 
no longer relevant.

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Quentin Spencer wrote:

> I wonder if the projects page shouldn't also be part of a wiki, so it 
> can be readily updated by the various individuals involved in the 
> projects. I've been thinking that maybe the best solution is tighter 
> integration between the top level octave pages and the wiki, where a few 
> top-level web pages are static html, but some of the links go to pages 
> on the wiki, which a similar look and feel. For example, the official 
> web site for the Fedora linux distribution, fedoraproject.org is 
> entirely maintained as a wiki. Users are required to sign on with a 
> username and password to edit it. This would require some coordination 
> and some changes in how the wiki is currently managed, but in the long 
> run, this would hopefully make it possible to make the information more 
> up to date.


I believe the PROJECTS file should be split-up and placed in an issue 
tracking system rather than be part of a webpage. If the CVS ever 
migrates to SVN then something like tracs should probably be installed 
to handle this. In fact I think tracs has a wiki interface as well..

D.

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