[Gimp-web] Status of the new web site

Helvetix Victorinox helvetix at mysterious.org
Wed Sep 24 02:35:01 2003


What is wrong with the contest?

Helvetix

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:28:03PM +0200, Raphaël Quinet wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 11:30:36 -0400, Carol Spears <carol@gimp.org> wrote:
> > Without the contest and the Resources section, it is not a gimp site.
> 
> It is not only a GIMP site, it is THE GIMP site.
> 
> > Raphael and scizzo, you need to come up with a new name and site for 
> > this mess you have made.
> 
> It is currently named mmmaybe.gimp.org.  This is not a very good name,
> so I agree with you: we need to come up with a new name.  We decided
> to rename it www.gimp.org.  That should be much better.
> 
> > What the hell are you doing?  
> 
> Making sure that all GIMP users get a better web site.  I think this
> is a nice goal.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> And now for the slightly more serious part: the removal of the link to
> the contest was necessary because some parts of it are not working
> correctly and it is better to hide it for the moment until a proper
> fix can be made.  The resources section is not removed, but it is
> simply not shown in the menu.  This was probably triggered by the
> discussion in this bug report:
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122686
> Anyway, I firmly support scizzo's choice to remove these two links
> from the menu.  They are not essential for the launch of the new web
> site and it is better to get a bit more time to improve these
> sections.  So I thank him for that, and I think that your comments are
> not really productive.
> 
> -Raphaël
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