out-of-date help pages misleadingly suggest samizdat has stopped development ? (fwd)

[boud]

another old email:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:38:59 +0200 (CEST)
> From: boud <boud...
> To: samizdat-devel at lists.nongnu.org
> Subject: out-of-date help pages misleadingly suggest samizdat has stopped
>     development ?
>
> hi all,
>
> IMHO the main samizdat page
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/samizdat/
>
> should be updated so that it looks less outdated and will need less
> frequent updating. At the moment, it lets the user think that samizdat
> development stopped two years ago...
>
> The news page could possibly also be updated, but that's more work and
> i'm not sure if it's urgent right now - maybe just add a link to the
> mailing list on the news page?
> http://www.nongnu.org/samizdat/news.html
>
> And the download page points to the latest releases, since it just links
> to pages which themselves get updated:
> http://www.nongnu.org/samizdat/download.html
>
> Anyway, my main suggestion is on:
>
> http://www.nongnu.org/samizdat/
>
> > Latest Release: Samidat 0.5.4 (2004-10-22)
>
> > Download
> > >     * samizdat-0.5.4.tar.gz (113k)
>
> i suggest putting:
>
>
> Latest Stable Release: Samidat 0.5.4 (2004-10-22)
>
> Download
>
> <li> latest stable: <a 
> href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/samizdat/samizdat-0.5.4.tar.gz";>samizdat-0.5.4.tar.gz 
> (113k)</a> | <a 
> href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=samizdat&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all";>debian 
> packet</a> | <a 
> href="http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/samizdat/";>latest 
> snapshot</a> | <a 
> href="https://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=samizdat";>CVS</a>
>
>
>
>
> This is essentially what i've put up the top of the twiki (back online in 
> https mode, though work is still in progress):
>
> https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Devel/SamizdatEngine
>
>
>
> cheers
> boud