New MacPorts web site

Frank Schima mf2k at macports.org
Thu May 8 09:30:57 PDT 2014


Hi Ryan,


I wanted to belatedly say *great work* on this new web page design. This webpage is more friendly and clear than the current one. 

On Apr 7, 2014, at 9:01 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

> Further work to be done, in no particular order and not necessarily before the first release:
> 
> * Further database and import script overhauls (maybe later)
> * Port search, at least equivalent to what ports.php on the current web site can do (essential)
> * Port pages:
>   * Variants (essential)
>   * Licenses (essential)
>   * Subports (essential)
>   * Distributability and binary package availability (nice to have; pretty easy)
>   * Version and revision history (nice to have; difficult)
> * Maintainer info pages (later)
> * Category info pages (later)
> * Learn how the new statistics-gathering code in base works and integrate with it
> * Figure out what to do with the site footer — add more links? remove all links?
> * Contact page?

I assume that getting these done is what is holding things up as far as deploying this? Is there any way we can modify it to help move things along?


Cheers!
Frank



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