[pygtk] Is the PyGTK website up to date? (also the tutorial)

[Patrick Ohearn]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:46 AM, John Anon <argo785 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Gian Mario Tagliaretti
> <gianmt at gnome.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 6:43 AM, John Anon <argo785 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>>> The PyGTK website's "Latest News" most recent item is from March,
>>> 2007. But this list seems quite active. Is the site simply out of
>>> date?
>>
>> It's simply a lack of manpower, the website is on SVN  as well:
>> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/pygtk-web/
>
> Ah. Interesting. Some templating is in use (ex.
> `<!--stp:include('newsitems.src') -->`), and files are mostly written
> in straight html. I see that the newsitems file is in Python with html
> inside triple-quoted strings. Hm.
>
> It would seem to me that the site would be sight easier to manage if
> it were just a wiki. I bet this would solve the manpower issue.
>
> Is live.gnome.org a wiki? Because [the PyGTK page
> there](http://live.gnome.org/PyGTK) seems like a nice and
> easy-to-update homepage for PyGTK... Hm. Is there any content on the
> pygtk homepage that isn't on this live.gnome page? Is there any real
> reason for keeping the old website around when you've got
> <http://live.gnome.org/PyGTK>?
>
>>> Also, the tutorial page says the tut was last updated 2005-04-13. The
>>> [tutorial itself](http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html)
>>> claims 2006-03-02. However, I saw some posts from ESR in October 2008
>>> that indicated he was making a few updates. Have those updates made it
>>> into the tutorial?
>>
>> Yes, Eric is committing on trunk.
>>
>>> BTW, could you please point me to the source of the tutorial? I looked
>>> where [the ViewCVS link points
>>
>> pygtk-docs module:
>> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/pygtk-docs/
>>
>
> Thanks. Ouch. I see that the tutorial is in docbook. Ooof. :( Why not
> just transfer it to the wiki? Would make it **way** easier to keep up
> to date.
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I think the Gnome Live! site is the best place for this, but I would
talk to the gnome guys that run it first (post on gnome sysadmins
list? or #sysadmins).


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