Re: [AD] website after SF dropped interactive ssh access?

[Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 23 Sep 2008, at 12:43, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> 2. We drop the current site and start over with a new one, or possibly
> redirect to allegro.cc or wiki.allegro.cc.

If we do, then yes, redirect. Don't drop.
I always hate it when a sourceforge project links to an empty webpage  
(on sourceforge).

> Of course, option 2 means we lose translations (I wouldn't mind  
> though,
> they are basically not being maintained any longer anyway), and old
> contents would need to be transferrred (most of it could need a  
> cleanup
> anyway - and we could also simply leave the old pages up).

I don't mind about translations, but I do mind about old content. And  
the layout, actually. I tend to be conservative with things like that.

> And of
> course, if we don't simply redirect to the wiki, it would need a
> volunteer to build the new site..

In either case we should not "simply" redirect to the wiki. If we go  
that way (which may or may not be a good idea, I have no real opinion  
on that) someone has to essentially seed the wiki with the current  
content, or as much of it as we think is relevant.
Here I'm assuming that "simply redirect" means we put up a message  
saying "sorry folks, new homepage is here at the wiki, but it's  
mostly empty at the moment, do add stuff". Most of the time stuff  
doesn't get added or the page lacks organisation and coherency. If  
someone can supervise that (Grzegorz...?) that would be cool.  
Otherwise I personally think it's a bad idea.

Which doesn't really solve our current problem. Just something to  
keep in mind. :)

Evert