From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Egyga-0003da-TQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:09:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAT69lWA011917; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:09:47 GMT Received: from host143.ipowerweb.com (host143.ipowerweb.com [66.235.193.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAT69k5R010237 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:09:46 GMT Received: (qmail 44612 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2005 07:10:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zim.mushroomblue.org) (71.39.113.14) by host143.ipowerweb.com with SMTP; 29 Nov 2005 07:10:46 -0000 Subject: Re: [www-redesign] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org From: mushroomblue To: www-redesign@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <438BEFE5.5060904@gentoo.org> References: <438174BD.9060100@gentoo.org> <438BEFE5.5060904@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 23:09:43 -0700 Message-Id: <1133244584.18889.0.camel@zim.mushroomblue.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: www-redesign@gentoo.org Reply-to: www-redesign@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC-ipwdcc-1-Metrics: host143.ipowerweb.com 208; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Archives-Salt: 9faeaea0-716f-4a2e-a337-93540368d51b X-Archives-Hash: 6d6e2f218cfb4eb195419c53619f1409 fonts got bigger. suck. otherwise, yay for almost finished site. On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 01:06 -0500, Curtis Napier wrote: > I got together with the project leads and we finalized some decisions. > The site, http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org, is now in it's final state > except for the search and donate. > > The search is going to be implemented using google as a back end as an > interim solution. The only free version of google site search that is > available to us is the normal one that anyone can use. We are not the > right kind of non-profit to get the free, customized search. This means > you will be taken out of the gentoo site to a google controlled page. > > The good news is that it will allow us to do a very comprehensive > advanced search page where you can fine grain your search to any of the > gentoo web sites. You will be able to search documents by language, > forums, developer pages, etc.... We will also hook into the bugs and > forum native search engines to further enhance the search. You will be > able to specify google or forum search as the search backend when you > search the forum. > > We will be investigating alternative search engines that we can host > ouselves so that we have maximum control. I won't be able to get around > to that until after the other gentoo sites are migrated to the new > design so google will be the default for a while. If anyone wants to do > some preliminary research and start submitting suggestions I would > appreciate it. > > I'll be setting up the search over the next week or two so stay tuned. > > As you can see Aarons reference site has been implemented pretty > accurately now. Comments and suggestions are welcome. > > I've had individual reports from a few key people and can safely say > that it renders correctly in all browsers with the exception of IE5 on > mac. I decided that it was not used enough to justify the hack it would > require to support it and there are alternative browsers for the mac all > the way back to OS8.X that don't have outstanding security issues as IE5 > does. I hope the few users of this browser will understand. > > There was a small bug in konqueror that I finally got sorted out, thanks > to dangle for being my tester. > > I'll report back when the search is ready for wide testing. > > Thanks everybody -- www-redesign@gentoo.org mailing list