Bugzilla Beta website

[David Miller]

Gervase Markham wrote:

> David Miller wrote:
> 
>> The preview version of the new www.bugzilla.org website is now 
>> available at http://website-beta.bugzilla.org/
> 
> This rocks, BTW. Just thought I'd mention it. Kudos to whoever wrote the 
> new content. We look very professional.

That'd be Mike Morgan.  Original design gratuitously swiped from the one 
Dave Shea did for Mozilla.org and modified for Bugzilla by Mike.

> Now we just need a new look for Bugzilla that's as nice ;-)

Yeah, really.  That's one of the things I keep hearing is Bugzilla still 
"looks" like a quick hack, even if it really isn't one under the hood 
anymore.

> Can't we run some sort of automatic check when we switch over to catch 
> stuff like this?
> 
> I'm currently maintaining the installation list on the trunk, as it 
> doesn't matter if the beta version is a little out of date, and it's a 
> hassle to update both.

I'm not sure if it's worth it at this point...  I think the new site is 
complete enough now (even if not all of the content has been rewritten 
yet) to go ahead and switch it over when we release 2.18rc1 in the next 
couple days.  It's already a suitable replacement for the existing 
website, even if the enhanced content we wanted to also do isn't in 
place yet.  For that one file (the installation list), I can remember to 
keep it when I pull everything else over.

The cool part about the beta website: it's all in Template Toolkit.  You 
can drop your installation list in there raw, and not bother running a 
script to convert it to HTML.  The template will just load the file and 
convert it for you :)  (I'm not sure if a template to do it that way has 
actually been done yet, but it should be a piece of cake to do).  In 
fact, there is a MySQL server available on there...  we could even put 
it in the database and use DBI to pull the data for the template if you 
want to do that.

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Dave Miller      Project Leader, Bugzilla Bug Tracking System
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