Re: [9fans] restructuring of plan9 pages - why?

[Uriel <uriell@binarydream.org>]

On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 05:20:28AM -0800, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> I'm somewhat confused by the new organization of the
> Plan9 pages (plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist).  I was able to
> find things faster before.  maybe it's just me. 
The reorganization was supposed to clean up things and make stuff more
accessible, unfortunately there were disagreements and a compromise was
sort of halfway implemented.

> For example a lot of useful information is under "more..." - not very
> descriptive.
Certainly. An important missing link in the front page is to the main
wiki page. 

Here is my proposed slightly corrected main page:
http://glendy.se.cat-v.org/who/uriel/p9_3.html
(It also fixes the broken html and various other things)

But this was not accepted due to a 6 months moratorium on any website
changes imposed by 'the powers that be'.

> also where did the links to outside pages go (e.g. forsyth's)?
Outside pages with software should die, I'm sick of checking for broken
links, and hunting down where things have moved this week, or who might
have a copy of something that is not online anymore. 

All that stuff should be in sources/contrib so it can be properly
indexed and mirrored.

But because no one gives a shit, still most stuff is scattered all over
the net, I try to keep the links to stuff that has yet to move to
sources/contrib in:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Software_for_Plan_9/
(Note that quite a few of those links are broken, and are just reminders
for me to hunt down who might have a copy of the contents so it can be
put in sources)

uriel