Outdated application pages at kde.org/applications

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Tue Mar 15 09:12:21 UTC 2011


A Dimarts, 15 de març de 2011, Ingo Malchow va escriure:
> 2011/3/15 Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org>:
> > On 15 March 2011 08:40, Ingo Malchow <imalchow at kde.org> wrote:
> >> 2011/3/14 Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org>:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> (cc'd to kde-www)
> >>> 
> >>> Just noticed [1] is outdated regarding app names and information. I
> >>> plan to handle changes at least the outdated information for Kexi.
> >>> 
> >>> But what I am not sure about is possible duplication: do we need
> >>> kde.org/applications when we have userbase?
> >>> It is hard to maintain two places.
> >>> 
> >>> That's not all. There's also a clash with community.kde.org. For
> >>> example Dolphin has outdated development page [2].
> >>> How it would be fixed? Maybe by adding just links to appropriate
> >>> userbase/community sites?
> >>> 
> >>> [1] http://www.kde.org/applications/office/
> >>> [2] http://www.kde.org/applications/system/dolphin/development
> >>> 
> >>> --
> >>> regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
> >>>  http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
> >>>  Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org)
> >>>  KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org)
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >> 
> >> The initial idea of the app pages was to have a quick overview of all
> >> relevant facts for a given application and make it easily
> >> maintainable, as those pages are generated from plain json files, see
> >> e.g.
> >> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/www/sites/www/applications/apps/dolphin.jso
> >> n?view=markup for the dolphin file.
> >> 
> >> Even more, it was intended to automate the task of updating those
> >> information. Sadly, it never got this far (yet?). Of course, open for
> >> suggestions to improve this situation.
> > 
> > So maybe what we need is either
> > 1. idea how to enable sharing between userbase and kde.org, or
> > 2. make the kde.org description very light/generic in terms of content
> > so we rarely have to update them, i.e. no versions, no links depending
> > on versions, etc.
> > 
> > I do not see 1. as very valuable or something easy.
> > 
> > --
> > regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
> >  http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek
> >  Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org)
> >  KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org)
> 
> Indeed, and 2. is already (mostly) the current way it works. Some
> adjustments are of course needed, like support for git locations. 

AFAIR I added a hack for git locations some time ago.

Albert



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