Call for MacPorts documentation/site effort

[Jeff Adams]

Well, I could certainly add a few lines to the
"getting started" section since I just got started. 
But how do I edit the wiki?  I created a macosforge
account but I don't see any "edit this page" links in
the wiki.

--- James Berry <jberry at macports.org> wrote:

> 
> On May 10, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> >> If there isn't, there should really be a Wiki
> page with all  
> >> Portfile variables. Just the names would already
> be helpful,  
> >> although it should obviously contain an
> explanation in the end.
> >
> > The documentation used to have that, or at least
> most of the useful  
> > variables. We currently have no documentation,
> however.
> 
> I know all of us would love to see better
> documentation and a better  
> experience on first arrival to the MacPorts site.
> Despite complaints  
> from time to time, nobody has stepped up to the
> chore to really make  
> things better.
> 
> Some resources:
> 
> 	- We have an xml file containing all the
> documentation from the old  
> site.
> 
> 	- We hope to bring online soon a RoR app that will,
> among other  
> things, provide listings of ports. One possibility
> would be to also  
> use this as a server for the site front-end and
> other documentation,  
> either to be served from statically generated pages
> or from the  
> database.
> 
> 	- We also have our WordPress site in all of its
> unglory, which we  
> might hack on as needed.
> 
> 	- Or something else.
> 
> 	- Thomas Reifferscheid at Johannes
> Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in  
> germany has graciously offered some hosting and
> bandwidth for  
> whatever services we need to host a site. Apple will
> likely also at  
> some point have the resources to allow us to host
> more of our site at  
> MacOSForge (they are currently trying to hire an
> admin for that site).
> 
> Some vision:
> 
> 	- We need somebody with the vision, drive, and
> determination to fix  
> the documentation end of things, including pursuing
> one of the  
> options above. Portmgr would love to hear from you
> if you'd like to  
> pull this off.
> 
> 	- We really need a nicely designed front-presence
> that describes the  
> project and gives access to ports and documentation.
> Our current  
> front end does those things only marginally.
> 
> Volunteers?
> 
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