Re: [pygame] Update PyGame website?

[Ryan Hope <rmh3093@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been programming PyGame for a few years now and have never once
expanded the comment buttons. I think the documentation is perfectly
fine the way it is. Just remove the comment feature and call it a day.

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Paul Vincent Craven
<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I saw creating a new website had been talked about, but not that someone had
> gone through the effort of working on one. I'll search  through the archives
> again here in a bit to look.
>
> I'm not volunteering to program a CMS out of python, or even to learn a new
> CMS out of the ones I already know. But I like PyGame and think that there
> needs to be a better reference site out there for it. Hopefully no one will
> be insulted by my working on this one.
>
> I'd also like to see some updated releases. I know that the code repository
> has recent check-ins, but the pygame.org site shows the last release over
> three years ago. Even through there were Summer of Code projects, still no
> new releases.
>
> Paul Vincent Craven
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Chris Noffsinger <cnoffsin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> If you look in the mailing list archives this just game up and was talked
>> about at length.
>>
>> Someone had already created a site to replace this one and it was very
>> good but it was not adopted.  Everyone agreed that we thought it could use a
>> change.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Owen Rexian <outrexian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> If we do build a new Pygame site, I vote for it to be written in python.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4 November 2012 23:11, Paul Vincent Craven <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, the PyGame website looks like it could use a little TLC. The
>>>> platform it runs on seems susceptible to spam, but it would be really great
>>>> if we could still collaborate and keep the website up to date.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure who controls the pygame.org website or how they feel about
>>>> an update. I played around creating an updated website using WordPress:
>>>>
>>>> http://pygame.info/
>>>>
>>>> Of course, it needs a lot of styling and more content needs to be put
>>>> into it. But before I did that I thought I'd ask how people would feel about
>>>> an updated web site. 1.) Am I a bad person for trying, and I should leave it
>>>> alone, 2.) Don't care, 3.) You'd like a log-in and help?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Paul Vincent Craven
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chris Noffsinger
>>
>



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Ryan Hope, M.S.
CogWorks Lab
Cognitive Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute