[Perl-org-patches] content and www/lean/history......

[Matt S Trout]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:19:24PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote:
> Ok, first of, apologies! - I seem to have jumped the gun...
> 
> Is the plan to focus on updates to content? - or to also look at design /
> usability?
> 
> I was coming at this from the perspective of what someone new to perl will
> experience when they hit the *.perl.org sites.
> 
> Personally I would still like to look at usability/design, but maybe that
> could come later?

I'd like to have a look at the information architecture a bit but there's lots
of obvious "let's bring things up to date a bit" data updates we can do first.

Remember this isn't our project, we're just helping get useful patches in
to it - so working with what's there and doing janitorial work first is
The Right Thing To Do.
 
> I understand keeping <project>.perl.org, I'd never heard of moose.perl.orgor
> catalyst.perl.org, oh, just found poe.perl.org, I wonder if there's a list
> of these projects somewhere?

I dunno, but if there isn't, we should make one.

> Would merging learn/history/www (maybe faq, not so sure on this) be a good
> idea though? - so the user doesn't get bounced between subdomains quite so
> often... e.g:
> 
> http://learn.perl.org/library/ - redirects to
> http://www.perl.org/books/library.html
> http://learn.perl.org/faq/ - links to http://faq.perl.org/, and the
> beginners mailing lists (not sure why that is under the faq).
> 
> Or is this too much for what you are trying to do?

That's a bit messy - but I think having a learn. separate from the main
site isn't so bad an idea - it just needs to be done a little more sensibly.

Something like a learn.perl list that includes intro books with a link
to the perl.org one for the heavier weight stuff.

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