New Mercurial Website

[Romain Pelisse]

Well, I must admit that I like the new page and find it a better "first
impression" of Mercurial than the wiki. To add my 2 cents, to this
discussion "yes you can do a very decent website with a wiki", but having a
set of well designed static pages to handle the "front page" of the website
seems reasonable to me (and far from being as much duplication as Adrian
seems to suggest it. Also, I tend to think that "over configuration" the
wiki so that it present a nice front page, it's probably not a good idea...

The web page content is not going to change everyday, therefore, I'm not
hurt that it should be handle outside the "wiki flow" and that it may or not
requires patches if modification comes from the community. Come on, we are
all familiar with Mercurial here, but not all of us are "at ease" with Wiki.
Other thing that I appreciate, one can modify offline the front page and
easily clone a local version of the website (I don't think this is possible
with the current wiki, but I maybe wrong).

.... well, that's my 2 cents.

(Also I wanted to say to the people that work on that site, that some of us
actually appreciate your work).

2009/11/2 Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>

> On 02.11.2009 15:01, Steve Losh wrote:
> > On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 02.11.2009 14:25, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 13:31, Adrian Buehlmann <adrian at cadifra.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> There is no need to start an entirely different platform
> >>>> that is doomed to be byte rotten from the start because no
> >>>> one will update it.
> >>> Not having everyone update it also means coherent language,
> >>> structure,
> >>> content and more quality control.
> >> Oh. So you say our current wiki has incoherent language and structure?
> >>
> >> Where exactly?
> >>
> > Quick example off the top of my head: the Release Notes page. The
> > table of contents has a bunch of headings for 1.3.0 only. Are there
> > not subsections for the other versions? Oh, no, they're there, they're
> > just not marked as headings for some reason.
> >
> > I can send a whole slew of examples later once I'm at a computer and
> > not a phone, if you like.
> >
>
> So why don't you start fixing it please?
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Romain PELISSE,
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist
on coming along and trying to put things in it" -- Terry Pratchett
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