[Scons-dev] Review scons.org/guidelines.php

[Dirk Bächle]

Hi Anatoly,

On 14.05.2015 19:00, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> My 0.02 cents is site works is not as important as wiki. And unless any
> of us have an education in webdesign or a good experience with, I
> doubt that anybody will produce a theme that is not stolen from some
> Bootstrap designs.

and why exactly would this kind of "stealing" be a bad thing?

Using original design that not so modern might be
> better than using something that you find exciting, but everybody else
> already tired of.

In my eyes, this makes it even more important to have a good separation between the theme/skin/style and the actual content. Just 
like for our documentation (DocBook) we would be open to theme changes, without having to touch the content. It would also be easier 
to kind-of "outsource" the styling of the page to a designer with no knowledge and/or interest in the technical details of our 
project, if that should ever be required or simply falls into our hands.

>
> I like that current site don't require compilation. I don't see why do you
> need this extra step. If somebody wants to help with web, it is better to
> resurrect the wiki with spam protection scheme, captcha or reputation.

The focal point of the current discussion is not about "the web" in general. It's about getting more active in the direction of 
social media, like Twitter or RSS/Atom feeds...such that interested people can subscribe and get notified about changes and can feel 
that the project is alive.

>
> In the end, it may happen that we will move to GitHub and just use
> GitHub pages, but wiki would still be useful.
>

Yes, this may happen...or not. And I agree that the Wiki will still be useful no matter what, so I don't feel the need for any 
changes in this department. And that's exactly why I'd like to keep it out of this discussion, and I think I mentioned this as my 
clear intention in one of my previous mails. So I'd really appreciate if people would stop pulling it in again as a topic, it's a 
discussion for another day.

Best regards,

Dirk