[cairo-commit] [cairo-www] 2 commits - src/index.mdwn src/news

[Carl Worth]

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 src/news/2007/07/03/cairo-wiki.mdwn |  106 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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New commits:
commit 6345d3d495a2b5cf6a4cfc8b0d48e9802931e68d
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Tue Jul 3 17:31:43 2007 -0700

    Put latest two news items on front page, not just one.

diff --git a/src/index.mdwn b/src/index.mdwn
index ee56188..fd4cf78 100644
--- a/src/index.mdwn
+++ b/src/index.mdwn
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Latest [[news]]: [[inline pages="news/*" archive="yes" show="1" rss="no" atom="no" template="dateandtitle"]]
+Latest [[news]]: [[inline pages="news/*" archive="yes" show="2" rss="no" atom="no" template="dateandtitle"]]
 
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commit 3b2bc2c250366af4fd390d4cef9764aa1c438328
Author: Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>
Date:   Tue Jul 3 17:31:21 2007 -0700

    Add page announcing new cairo wiki

diff --git a/src/news/2007/07/03/cairo-wiki.mdwn b/src/news/2007/07/03/cairo-wiki.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b756563
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+[[meta title="New cairo wiki available, please help!"]]
+
+I'm happy to announce that we've just gone live with a new cairo wiki
+at:
+
+<http://cairographics.org>
+
+This is an [ikiwiki][1]-based wiki that replaces the MoinMoin-based wiki
+that was [lost][2] a couple of months ago, (it also replaces the static-
+HTML placeholder we had in place in the interim). Here are some of the
+benefits of the new setup:
+
+* RSS/Atom feeds for news items, automatic update of front page with
+  latest news.
+
+* Syntax is more sane, (uses [MarkDown][3] which uses _italics_ and
+  *bold* rather than insane ''italics'' and '''bold''').
+
+* Completely integrated with git, meaning:
+
+  * Natural git distribution should prevent similar loss of wiki
+
+  * Standard git tools work for browsing history
+
+  * Regular contributor can just "git push" changes without
+    using any obnoxious web interface, (but the drive-by user
+    can use the web-interface and know nothing of git).
+
+* Templates and CSS for theming are right there alongside the
+  source in the git repository, (not locked away in some database
+  requiring the obnocious web interface to edit them)
+
+We encourage anybody to start editing the website to improve it. Add
+your tips and tricks, things you've learned about cairo, and things
+you're confused about. I'd also be glad to have people contribute
+larger scale reorganizations and cleanups. The wiki requires only the
+most painless registration step imaginable, and then allows web-based
+editing by anyone willing to go through that registration step.
+
+Now that we've got this new wiki in place, here are some projects that
+I would like to see happen:
+
+* Resurrect the old samples (cairo-snippets) and get them nicely
+  integrated with the wiki
+
+* Similarly, get all the old cairo-demo stuff into the wiki
+
+* Put the cairo documentation into the wiki where people can, (if
+  not directle edit and improve it), at least click on a
+  "discussion" link for any given page to indicate where there are
+  any questions about any items.
+
+  Our documentation has never really grown past simply being API
+  function reference, and I'd really like to see some real
+  reference material and tutorials get written. I'd also like to
+  expand the set of output targets we're getting. I know we're
+  currently publishing HTML and at least devhelp from gtk-doc, and
+  I'd definitely like to get man pages and PDF output as well.
+
+  Maybe we can do all of that with gtk-doc, but it might be easier
+  to shift to something like [AsciiDoc][4] instead.
+
+If you (like me) would rather not ever use a web form for editing web
+content, then you can get the cairo wiki source via git through one of
+the following URLs:
+
+	git://cairographics.org/git/cairo-www
+
+	git+ssh://cairographics.org/git/cairo-www
+
+where the second requires a freedesktop.org account, but allows users
+in the cairo group to push changes out via git.
+
+Recently, there have been a lot of very useful things floating by on
+the mailing list, and I'd love
+
+You may notice that the look and feel of the website has changed.
+That's partly just to be different and partly to help indicate that
+things have changed. If you find the new look tacky, you can blame my
+utter lack of web-design talent and you may consider this an
+invitation to help fix things. One huge benefit compared to our
+MoinMoin setup is that we now have much easier mechanisms for
+controlling templates, etc. and everything is done in a much cleaner
+fashion, (semantic HTML with CSS styling, etc.). For example, the
+navigation bar at the top of each page is really nothing more than an
+unordered list as far as the HTML is concerned, then it's styled with
+CSS to have the horizontal look.
+
+Currently, changes to the cairo website will be mailed out to the
+cairo-commit mailing list. The wiki is supposed to have its own
+mechanism for subscribing for notifications to specific pages, but it
+doesn't seem to be working yet.
+
+Finally, I'd like to extend thanks to Joey Hess for writing ikiwiki
+and for being very recptive with questions from me, (and accepting a
+few patches as well), as I put this together.
+
+-Carl
+
+[1]: http://ikiwiki.info
+
+[2]: http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-May/010594.html
+
+[3]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
+
+[4]: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
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