Re: [Firebird-website] A few thoughts about (new) site structure,

[Pavel C. <pc...@ib...>]

Dmitry Yemanov napsal(a):
> 
> I thought there should be some decision making group to be created and 
> introduced here, which is expected to be responsible. Now you speak 
> about various activities, but I still have no idea how it's going to be 
> managed. While I volunteer to assist, I don't see my role in this effort 
> yet.

First, the decision group already exists (everybody from the project who
cares), and hangs on right here in this list. Second, it couldn't be
*responsible* for anything, as it's just talking heads. Only workers
could be responsible for their work. Certainly they would keep up
"fixing" their work until the "decision group" would be happy, as it's
our usual routine. However, it wouldn't make any sense to have all
generals and no indians, so I managed to secure two indians, me and
Helen. It means that we have allocated time to do some actual work, and
we're going to do some initial groundwork that has to be done before
more hands could start to work on more content, actual design, layout,
graphics, whatever. What we're going to do is breaking up the current
site content we'd like to carry on into chunks of data without markup
(actually, reStructured Text) and basic code/data structures for
repeating data patterns to be used in templates, and some plumbing code
for the site so one could see something assembled from content. We'll
also produce some *raw* templates along the lines discussed here. Then
everybody can play with the page templates to define actual layout,
create more content etc.

So, right now, there is nothing and nobody we could *manage*, except us,
and until the initial work isn't done, so the final site could start to
get shape, we would just go in circles and nothing would get done.

If anybody wants to participate in the ground work, its welcome. But
it's really boring and nothing interesting there. The actual fun and
"decision making" would start once you would have brinks you can use to
build the site, but so far there aren't any and anything we would sketch
here without them would be just cloud castles on paper.

Hence I would like suggest to wrap the initial phase of discussion as it
seems that we have settled on *raw* site structure and it's enough
information to start the groundwork. I'll inform you here once the basic
blocks would be ready so you can start to carve the new site. However,
as I mentioned previously, it will not happen overnight. It would take
at least a week, and we have to QA and get out the 2.5 RC1 first and we
also have regular jobs.

best regards
Pavel Cisar