Killing http://printing.kde.org/

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Thu May 27 19:41:54 UTC 2010


A Dijous, 3 de desembre de 2009, Anne Wilson va escriure:
> On Wednesday 02 December 2009 23:29:10 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > A Dilluns, 30 de novembre de 2009, vàreu escriure:
> > > On Sunday 29 November 2009 19:12:46 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > I did a bit of digging myself and found nothing really useful since
> > > > there is lot of description of things that don't exist anymore. The
> > > > only things i'd save would be the links to the mailing lists and some
> > > > info that is CUPS specific.
> > > 
> > > It's a sad but true situation. I didn't have any time for KDE printing
> > > in
> > > 
> > >  the last 2 years and I don't think I will have for the short future. I
> > >  still manage the mailing lists, but I wouldn't have time or energy to
> > >  eventually take care of the printing.kde.org site.
> > > 
> > > Thanks for looking into this.
> > 
> > So after having a more close look to the whole page the only things that
> > 
> >  can be useful in our current situation are
> > 
> > Points to bugzilla for bugs and the two mailing lists
> > http://printing.kde.org/contact.php
> > 
> > CUPS-only information
> > http://printing.kde.org/faq/cups.php
> > http://printing.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/accesscontrol.php
> > http://printing.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/quotas.php
> > 
> > And as well as i like CUPS only information i really don't see it
> > belonging
> > 
> >  to KDE pages.
> > 
> > So i just suggest killing the whole site and creating an userbase page
> > for printing.
> > 
> > I can do the userbase page if you agree on killing the whole site.
> 
> Since CUPS correct setup is crucial to printing success, could you please
> ensure that the userbase page has a link to guidance on CUPS setup? 
> Thanks.
> 
> This does remind me of another problem, though.  Userbase has, up to now,
> been arrange largely around applications, but issues like this spell out
> the need for change.  I'm not going to pollute this thread any further -
> I'll start a new one about that - but I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts
> there, too.

I had volunteered to do the cleanup but obviously failed, if someone wants to 
do the work it would rock, otherwise it won't be done by me since i have lots 
of things to do and this always end up in the end of the todo list.

Albert

> 
> Anne
> 
> Anne



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