oli wrote:I think someone (perhaps Tom?) should structure this project. First he should sum up the actual state of the project, what is already decided and what decisions have to make next? Who are the maintainers for which part of the website? When do we want to launch the new site? What content is a must at the date of starting?
At the moment the project is a collection of ideas and a preparative discussion and some testing. That is good, but it has to be changed into a real project.
Agreed. And since raffy originally invited me to lead the project, your comments lead me to think it is now time for me to make some decisions.
1. If we are agreed that Servage doesn't have the supporting bandwidth we need, and subject to Eric's agreement, I'd like to see Barry point the puppylinux.org DNS to Eric's server address. Although this is point 1, and is rightly the first decision to be made, it comes well down the list for priority of action.
2. If we are agreed that we don't want to face similar problems of lack of clarity and integration at the new site as we currently suffer with the old, I'd like to see Drupal be the integrated environment upon which the rest of Puppy's face is built. Evidence is that it has such popularity that finding future maintainers shouldn't be an issue.
3. If we are agreed that Drupal makes sense for Puppy, then we have the ability to assign editorial permissions to specific maintainers for oli's manuals. That helps to ensure the ongoing integrity of the manuals.
4. If we are agreed that the job oli and his cohorts are doing is indispensable to Puppy's attempts at being user friendly, I'd like oli to continue as the official Puppy leader of the documentation project.
5. If we are agreed that we like the way Tom and prit1 are working with our web development effort, I'd like them to begin work on a Beta site, so we can give a final ok to the look-and-feel aspect as well as overall functionality.
6. If we are agreed that a Beta site is our next logical step, that site MUST include a section for the manuals so oli and his crew can start porting their material. It must also contain a wiki section, since we are already in agreement that the wiki is the beating heart of Puppy.
7. If we are agreed that we do not want to lose the valuable content on the wakkawiki that Lobster maintains, I'd like to see our web developers and Lobster get together to do some test ports to the Beta site, so we can be certain we will be able to preserve the vast body of work that our diligent wiki maintainers have created.
8. I originally set Easter, being the time of rebirth, as the logical time for us to move on to the next stage of the rebirth of Puppy's web presence. Easter is upon us and so, if we are agreed that there has been enough discussion over the preliminary issues, I'd like to see us move into the Beta phase from now.
That certainly doesn't mean that discussion ends. It just means that we have enough material to move into creating a Beta test site. I will continue to communicate with tombh, prit1, caneri, Lobster and raffy by PM on any issues they feel may need clarification. If I deem any single issue is important enough to require community input, I will recommend the party raising it opens the matter for discussion here before any decision is made.
Onward and upward, gang!
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