On 09/17/2011 03:44 AM, Always Learning wrote:
On Sat, 2011-09-17 at 03:32 +0100, Ned Slider wrote:
As I said above, this isn't something people can volunteer for - only a very select few have the appropriate privileges to perform the task. There are trust issues.
However, you can file a bug report against the website.
What is the point in 'complaining' by filing a BUG report when it is conspicuously evident the existing web person(s) can not cope because they have insufficient time or have died or have withdrawn from an active Centos involvement.
Because as far as the CentOS Project is concerned, if there isn't a bug report the issue doesn't exist. Those that can fix the issue don't necessarily read the users mailing list so the correct thing to do is file a bug report.
Ideally the Centos Management Board could use this list and other lists to ask for web help.
You wrote about 'trust issues'. Surely it just a web site which can have access restricted to all the web pages or some of them and that access be withdrawn for 'trust issues' after the volunteers have finished updating it ? That is very easy to do on Centos / Apache.
Another method is to give the volunteers a demo sub-domain, for example: new.centos.org, and let the volunteers construct an updated version there. When it is approved by the Centos Management Board, those refreshed web pages can be moved to www.centos.org. Simple, eh (and not a trace of SQL joins or views anywhere) :-)
There is an ongoing Website V2 sub-project that has been running for some time:
http://wiki.centos.org/WebsiteVer2 http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/websitever2/
Feel free to get involved.