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

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Matt (and everyone)!

On Monday 17 August 2009 19:33:10 Matt S Trout wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 04:56:32PM +0100, Barbie wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 04:24:51PM +0100, Matt S Trout wrote:
> > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:19:24PM +0100, Leo Lapworth wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > I would suggest having a uniform navigation set of links across all the
> > related sites, with a full list of project subdoamins on a 'Projects'
> > page or similar, which then can list all the known projects which are
> > linked to via perl.org rather like the oldlists.perl.org site for
> > mailing lists.
>
> That would be great.
>
> Robrt said he'd really love it if we could produce an updated
> lists.cpan.org type site so the forward to the TPF wiki can be removed so
> that's maybe an interesting starting point as well.
>

Are you referring to:

http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?mailing_lists

If so, then there is a consistent format for the mailing lists entries in the 
various pages:

1. They are under a "^^ [Mailing lists]" (or less preferably a plain "[Mailing 
lists]" page, and they later have something like:

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{
* ack-announcements: announcements for the ack replacement for grep.
** Archive[s]: http://groups.google.com/group/ack-announce
** Name: ack-announcements
** Subscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/ack-announce
** Unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/ack-announce
* ack-users: Users of the ack replacement for grep.
** Archive[s]: http://groups.google.com/group/ack-users
** Name: ack-users
** Subscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/ack-users
** Unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/ack-users
}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

I think it shouldn't be too hard to write a crawler that will traverse the 
pages and collect all the mailing lists entries and place them into an 
XML/YAML/etc. file which can later be converted to HTML.

Is there any interest in me doing it?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> > This then helps to promote the other sites consistently across all the
> > main sites.
>
> And if we start sharing navigation elements we get a step towards it being
> easier to rebrand while doing something actually useful at the same time :)
>
> > Having said that the links could be cleaned up, so that they point to
> > subdomains and not sub-paths.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > BTW are patches meant to be sent to the list?
>
> Yeah, we're going for the "mail out and discuss patches" approach; there's
> a few of us on here who can send stuff upstream for inclusion once we think
> we've got a winner.

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