[Open-bio-l] volunteering for openbio

[Matthew Pocock]

Hi.

The other wish-list item (from our point of view) is the possibility to 
view multiple "versions" of parts of the web site. This is important for 
tutorials and documentation and stuff. We should realy have had all of 
this under CVS and tagged across repositories - such is the wisdom of 
hindsight. Something functionaly equivalent to 
biojava.org/branch-tag/our-sight-rooted-here with biojava.org refering 
to latest stable or HEAD.

Is this sort of thing possible? As always, documentation and the web 
site seem to get pushed to the bottom of the list of things to do.

Matthew

ps does anybody have any experience with subversion? It at least has 
webdav access so that we could have the 'we exist' web sites, docs, 
tutorials, releases stuff all being controled centrally with apropreate 
accounts, but last time I played with it things weren't quite there yet.

Jason Stajich wrote:
> Before we go gung-ho on suggesting content management systems - chris d
> has put some work into making this easier with a new system that is
> already up and running but won't get rolled out until he gets back from
> buisiness trips at the end of the month - the key point is that someone
> has to write content and keep it up to date.  Part of that means following
> the project and writing
> 
> We are looking to have a shared news feature that is reflected in all the
> project websites along with a project specific news and static pages.  The
> goal is making much easier to insure that the news is up-to-date and that
> we don't have multiple old versions lying around.
> -jason
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Hilmar Lapp wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Well - almost certainly I think it is the web site that
>>>sounds the best
>>>place to start for you - What I would do is poke around the
>>>web sites and
>>>then propose a system which has to
>>>
>>>  (a) let the different sites have control of content sensibly
>>>
>>>  (b) has some commonish look and feel
>>>
>>>  (c) perhaps lets News items be centrally managed so people
>>>in BioPerl
>>>see BioJava annoucements and stuff.
>>>
>>>
>>>What do other people think?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I agree. Lots of developers will hug you if you get the website right
>>(which basically means up-to-date news, announcements, and docs -- if
>>any of these is outdated it leads to unfavorable results with people
>>who actually trust websites presenting the latest stuff; I've had
>>several discussions already about why bioperl has a 1.0 release if the
>>news says 0.7).
>>
>>	-hilmar
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