Re: help?

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Jason Pincin wrote:

> > > Brainstorm?  You had mentioned thing syou would like done to the forms by Beta.  Care to
> > > clarify on that some?  That'd be usefull.
> > Forms?  What forms?  
> 
> You mentioned you'd like to see cleanup done on various forms b4 beta.  I was just wondering
> what you may have meant by "cleanup".  I havce sevceral things I'd like to see happen of
> course as well...

gawd, I don't remember anymore.  One thing that does need to be fixed
though is the display of external links.  Somewhere the tables are screwed
up, cuz the column that displays the actual document is sized for 100%.
But when you add the sidebar, now you have a page which is about 120% too
wide on a 800x600 screen.

> > > Did we ever finish indexing the LDP?  Weren't you working on ways to link pages together?
> > > What ever came of that?
> > Gawd, indexing so sucks.  But, yeah, I'll work on it.  Not everything can
> > be glory.  As for linking pages together, I fixed that weeks ago.  Go view
> 
> /me grins.  Unfortunately u r correct.  Cool.  I thought you had come to an interim
> conclusion... sounds swell.

Well a better solution won't happen until I can compile again.  And I'm
going to wait until I get my RH 6.2 CD for that.

> > be better to index the complete doc as one page and then have people view
> > the indexed view and provide a link to the "one big page" for those who
> > think the indexed view sucks.  Comments?
> 
> I'm not sure I'm really getting the picture here... you saying make a table of contents
> page, have ht://dig index that, and then have it link into "one big page"?

No.  htdig will index the all-in-one page, but user's will view the TOC.
There will be a link on the TOC for the all-in-one.

> > As for other ideas.... well Cheek opened up his codebase and DB.  Might be
> > interesting to see what he has.   /me ducks
> 
> Yeh, I was gonna mention that too... not sure what to do with it yet.  
> If you want to dive into it, go for it.  I don't have the
> gumption/time to do it quite yet.  I think it can wait til one of us
> does.

I'll take a look.
> 
> > Email gateway?  The LBF?
> 
> As far as the LBF, thats yur baby.  Email gateway... not sure if we're
> ready to decide upon a design yet... but I could be wrong.  I think
> LDP-related stuff is more important right now.  Not sure how long
> that'll take, so if you wanna launch into email stuff... that's cool.  
> This is an area I think will be a LOT of fun.

Well one thing that we REALLY REALLY REALLY need to do is work on/decide
on a taxonomy for the site.  Someone with good org skills is going to have
to figure that out.  Though one possible solution is to use the taxonomy
in RPMS.  That might be a really good solution since RPM software covers
both software and hardware (drivers).  We'll need to expand it some in the
hardware area, but it would be a good start.  Another option is to use the
taxonomy of freshmeat.  Cheek has a taxonomy too.  

Point is I'd much rather see us use and extend than build from scratch.
But we need to really think about it.

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