[kdewebdev-site] Things to do

[Andras Mantia]

On Wednesday 02 March 2005 01:17, Eric Laffoon wrote:
> Hi all,
> let me preface this do list.

So we should find volunteers for the items, if I'm right. ;-)

> some foundational things done. Now we need to do more. I will be glad
> to work on content once our frameworks are up and we need to keep in
> mind that we will be moving to the PHP5 server as soon as I do a few
> things to get it ready, hopefully in the coming weeks.
Anyway, we must be sure that this site works, as the move might happen 
only after 3.4.0 is released.

> DO LIST - things that need done. If you're going to do something be
> sure to read the whole email for other sections.
> 1) Set up subdomains. I have set up a functioning Kommander
> subdomain. We need to copy applib.php and set up a template for the
> index page. I think the most important here is to get the quanta

Right. BTW, I've created an appmenu.php (based on a code from Kommander) 
which is in kallery/public_html/include that can be used to create 
application-specific menus. This way the amount of code needed to put 
in each PHP file goes down. 

> (I 
> have a masthead for it up) page up, but all of them should go up. One
> key factor I would like to discuss, but not get bogged down on, is a
> general subdomain menu framework. Probably secondary pages don't need
> the main menu for the main site, only the subdomain index. 

A way to access the main site would be nice tough.

> There are 
> two doc links in Kommander and I need to put up a third. Ideally we
> should have a docs link and list them there. My suggestion for
> subdomain links is
> main - index
> news - archive
> faq - common and app specific
> screenshots - duh? ;-) (there should be a key image on the main and
> all on application)
> links - app specific
> docs - all
> resources - KNewStuff interface

I'm fine with it.

> 2) FAQ improvements - while this will be fully developed with
> simplexml we can at least manage the categories and provide a link
> section. On the main site it will include common and all application
> faqs but at the top it will provide a link to each application area
> faq. Application (subdomain) area faqs will only show common and
> application specific faqs. This should be pretty easy to modify with
> Andras' code.

The code is basicly ready. Might need some touches to get exactly how 
you want.

> 3) screenshots - we need screenshots for each application along with
> key shots to go on the main page which will offer a preview of all
> applications

Anybody wanting to make screenshots? Read the screenshot guide on 
i18n.kde.org. Shortly: use 75dpi (you can use Gimp after you took the 
shot to reduce the dpi), use Plastik decoration, widget theme and 
colors.

> 4) News - I will be doing all the database management so 
> I will set this up as I already have a news system I use on
> kittyhooch.com that can expire news. I will need to add categories.
> We will show information on the latest news on the main site and
> application index pages with more info an details on a news page. I'm
> happy to let others design the markup for this I hope to offer the
> data classes to expose this shortly.

Ok, so we are waiting for you to put this up.

> 5) KNewStuff - I need to read up on this at http://kstuff.org. I plan
> on buffering submissions and I have a lot in mind for this. I also
> think it would be good to set up a user database so it gives us the
> option to email anyone if they have downloaded something that we
> later find has a security problem. Anyway the application interfaces
> can be begun now to review online similar to from Quanta and also we
> can begin the submission pages soon, but I will be introducing data
> management classes so we can wait for that. Also we will need
> maintainers for KNewStuff submissions.

I'm ready to help anybody with the KNewStuff part. 

Andras
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Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.sourceforge.net
K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org
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