[TEAM] Website Team Report
Jason Rogers
jacaetevha at fast-mail.org
Fri Jun 10 14:26:50 UTC 2005
Jason Rogers wrote:
> Jason Rogers wrote:
>
>> Well, here goes for my first official ProgressReport for the
>> WebsiteTeam.
>>
>> Since the last report (was there one? :) Stephane Ducasse has stepped
>> down as TeamLead and we have acquired a new TeamLead, namely me. :)
>>
>> Thanks to Stephane for leading this team's efforts so far. I will
>> endeavor to do as good a job.
>>
>> Having been TeamLead for a whopping 24+ hours I have already noticed
>> a burning issue: we need more help. You may ask how you can help,
>> please consider the following:
>>
>> 1. HowTo texts: you can submit these to the SqueakDevMailingList.
>> They won't necessarily be used in whole or in part, but I do promise
>> to read them all.
>> 2. ScreenShots: Do you have a favorite "world" in Squeak? Perhaps
>> there is a portion of Squeak for which you would like to have more
>> visibility. We will be accepting screen shots soon (hopefully). The
>> process by which we will do this has not yet been determined.
>> Posting screen shots to a mailing-list seems like a bad idea since it
>> will potentially bog down email accounts subscribed to the list, so
>> stay tuned for how you can post your favorite shot.
>> 3. Goran Krampe has been working on some texts for the site
>> already, namely a "selling pitch" for Squeak and a "joining the
>> community HowTo".
>> 4. The new site is planned to be hosted at
>> http://box1.squeakfoundation.org:7777. We are currently having
>> issues with this site (SmallWiki issues and a reference to an
>> unreachable StyleSheet) that is causing very slow responses (on the
>> order of 3+ minutes per page). We are working on this and hope to
>> have it fixed very soon.
>>
>> If you have any questions, concerns, or other feedback please feel
>> free to hop into the discussions.
>>
> I just remove the reference to
> "http://laza.homeip.net/squeaksite/newstyle.css" from the StyleSheets
> page of http://box1.squeakfoundation.org:7777. That has helped a
> great deal in responsiveness. I am not sure who is responsible for
> this StyleSheet but if you could send it to me I will make sure it
> gets onto box1 so we can serve it from there. Thanks!
>
I know it's bad form to continue to reply to my own posts, but I just
wanted to add that the Download and About links (probably the 2 most
popular links on the site) are still atrociously slow. So, don't hold
your breath just yet.
--
Jason Rogers
"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I,
but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in
the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me, and gave himself for me."
Galatians 2:20
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