Re: GTK+ Website Review - Final Draft

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:26 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:41 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> > Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 13:16 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > >> And I still believe that the official GNOME bindings deserve to be in
> > >> a
> > >> separate section.
> > > 
> > > I see that the site is live already. Please don't just ignore this
> > > regression. I've mentioned it before too.
> > 
> > Hi Murray,
> > 
> > We are not ignoring it, it is a planned change. There are one or two and
> > we have had quite a few improvement requests since going live - we will
> > be getting to it soon.

This still hasn't happened and it's still infuriating me that the page
was broken. Why can't I just fix this page as I used to keep it
maintained before?

> > Currently I am contemplating:
> > 
> > 1. Removing the whole table and linking to the GNOME bindings page
> > instead which I think jdahlin suggest to me.
> > 
> > 2. Removing anything older than (including) 2.8 which is no longer
> > supported I think. If we do this then there is little point in having
> > half the languages on there since the data we have shows most are only
> > partially supported up to 2.4.
> 
> But the data we have is probably out-of-date and will never be regularly
> up-to-date. If you just remove them then there's no easy way for people
> to find them. The original page had text about how the information is
> self-reported and therefore not that reliable.
> 
> > Currently the bindings link is broken since it has changed since
> > starting the pages. I guess we should link to
> > 
> >   http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyone/Bindings
> 
> That's really just for release management. I don't think it would be
> wise to make that the only list of our supported bindings. The existing
> page worked fairly well.
> 
> > This link will have to be kept up to date, if this is the link to use,
> > it would be better to have a more permanent link that doesn't change
> > with new versions of GNOME (which we used to have).
> 
> Theoretically, 
> http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/Bindings
> should do that but it doesn't seem to work for sub-pages.
> 
> > 3. Putting the language bindings on a separate page (if we keep the
> > table of course).
> > 
> > This any a bunch of other things we have had requested will be processed
> > in due course :)
> 
> OK. Thanks.
> 
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