[Koha] [Koha-translate] [Koha-devel] Announcing ... New koha.org Website based on Plone

[Joshua Ferraro]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 12:17 PM, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> Joshua Ferraro <jmf at liblime.com> wrote:
> > There were no localization options on the old website, so this isn't a
> > blocker. Also, I don't find any links to koha-fr.org on the old koha
> site
> > either.
>
> It's definitely linked from Discussions on the old koha site (but
> apparently the link is currently broken. I'll go fix it).
>
> Bizarrely, the "Discussions" page is missing from the new site and
> changing hostname to new.koha.org on the old URL results in 404 Not
> Found.  Please can we keep old page locations even if the logical
> structure has changed?  Remember, Cool URIs Don't Change
> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

This is an excellent idea. Do you have a list of URIs from the old website
that you'd like mapped to the new site, preferably in a mod_apache format so
we can just drop them into place? That would be an outstanding contribution
to this effort.


>
>
> But, revenons a nos moutons, it's correct that there weren't any
> localization options on koha.org before, so most Francophones probably
> go direct to koha-fr now.  If we've koha.org in other languages, it'll
> probably need better links to relevant local sites.

Paul and HDL can let us know whether they want to redirect koha-fr.org to
koha.org with an FR localization. Guys, any thoughts?


>
>
> > > 3.2.1.  ORDERING OF PAY FOR SUPPORT.
> [...]
> > This is not an issue that can easily be resolved unfortunately and the
> > koha-manage group decided to list by date of entry rather than the above
> > ideas.
>
> It was suggested, along with other changes, but no consensus was
> reached and after months of silence, suddenly it's all a rushed launch
> for some unknown-to-me reason.
>
> I didn't think about multiple versions (too blinkered by what we'd got
> to think of radical best practice in the time I had available).  I'm
> open to making a reorderable searchable listing if that can be done
> easily in Plone.  I've not used a good Plone for years, so I don't
> remember how to do such things.  Any tips from Plone users?
>
> > > [...]  Plone can be perfectly compliant with
> > > disability access rules but implementers need to observe them.
> >
> > If you notice, there is an 'accessibility' link which should address this
> > concern.
>
> That looks like the Plone boilerplate.  new.koha.org does not yet
> comply even with what's currently stated there.

Can you give some specific examples of problems that need to be solved
please? We'll certainly do our best.

Cheers,

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