On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Jorge G. Mare<koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Niels, are you really going to work on this? Being my area of expertise, > I would be glad to take over if you are time-constrained. +1 Niels if you have a draft, please release it to the world ASAP. > I really don't want to have to work on the website upgrade at the > eleventh hour without any planning (which is the status quo). So unless > anybody opposed, I would like to take over this task right away. I agree, and your plan seems reasonable. > h. Add mirrors to new Downloads page (will work on this with Urias). Also in the meantime I have indeed been working on my IP address Geolocation system for automatic mirror selection. I have a test page with a couple APIs that I am using from JavaScript, which I will send a separate email about (so we can choose the best API.) > During the transition period, bug reports can be filed against the test > installation so that we try to get all rough edges ironed out by the > alpha 1 release date. Yes that would be good. > In a somewhat related question, would it be possible to have a copy of > the Haiku User Guide html pages under the haiku-os.org domain? There are > many planes in the website where I would like to link to the User Guide, > and I would like it to be to a regular http:// address and preferably in > the same domain. I'm surprised it isn't already up there. It wouldn't be too hard to just have an automatic check-out from SVN for this, or barring that, a method to do so manually from the web-site in case automatic sounds too risky. -- Regards, Ryan