[haiku-web] Re: Porting the website theme to Drupal 5.7
- From: "Niels Reedijk" <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-web@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:34:17 +0100
Hi Curtis,
2008/3/23, Curtis Wanner <katisu@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Nielx wrote:
> > Okay, here's what I'll do. I have a mercurial repository that is
> > password protected. If you want to look at the theme, or help work on
> > it, let me know. Send me an email with a preferred user name, and why
> > you want to access the theme. CC this mail to Jorge, as he's the theme
> > author. If he approves, then I will give you an account and point you
> > to the location.
>
>
> Pardon me, I've decided to reply to this on the list at the moment for
> discussion purposes.
Well, don't excuse yourself for replying.
> In addition to wanting to familiarize myself with the current setup and
> seeing if I can help with modules updates, I have some issues with the
> current site. I would like to set up my own test site (aka dev environment)
> to work on ideas.
Like I said before, please feel free to send me a private message with
a preferred user name. I can give you access to the current theme.
About setting up your own test site. I _think_ it might not be a good
idea to start having copies floating around of the data. The reason is
that it does contain sensitive material (privacy-wise).
I know I have done this, but in retrospect this is not a wise thing at
all. I should have sticked to the testsite on the webfaction accounts,
because we have to protect the privacy of our users.
Other thing: I think the website port should be a group effort, but
the current array of communication tools is inadequate. I have a list
of all the modules we need for drupal 5. I would like to publish this,
but I don't know where, since it is a potential security problem.
Security through obscurity, right :-). Now I'm a big fan of project
management tools, and I'd prefer to use basecamp
(http://www.basecamphq.com) to plan and execute this operation. But of
course, if there is a less drastic way of keeping our secrets, then
I'm all open for suggestions.
> 1. The problem with the gallery in IE6 is not the only occurrence of this
> problem. There are several articles that do this in IE7.
What is 'the' problem here?
> 2. IMHO the development section isn't in the best format for developers.
> It feels too bloggish. While I understand part of the issue is that content
> also needs to added and improved, the current set up just doesn't feel
> right. Definitely eats up too much paper if you print documents directly
> from the site.
Even with the 'print' button used?
> 3. In general, I feel that some of the site layout needs improvement.
> Perhaps some use cases need to be developed.
Are you talking about 'screen layout' (how the screen is structured),
organizational layout (how the site is built up) or visual layout (how
the theme looks)?
> In general, I question the "one theme for all" solution. IMHO the current
> theme seems more geared towards the general users and community and not so
> much for developers. If anything, I would think the waltercon
> (http://waltercon.haiku-os.org/ ) site theme lends itself more to a
> developer site.
The current website has been designed with the mindset of that the
audience we want to reach right now are developers (right, Jorge?). In
other words, our users are our developers. To that end, the website
has been designed to integrate all relevant content.
Now I envision a stage where we might get a developers.haiku-os.org
website, but not right now. I also don't think that it would be a good
idea to change the theme of the website based on the location you are
in at that point. Let's keep that for when we do an actual release.
Just my opinion, of course.
N.
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