(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Hi, I haven't read right through this thread, but it seems the right place to ask a question I was going to post as a new topic: Can I help with editing the news page? Am I right in looking here:

http://www.puppylinux.org/home/latest-news

for the latest news, or is there a better news page? The items all contain very little text and I would be glad to help out if all is needed is someone say a little bit more about items that may interest the casual visitor. I've been using Puppy since about 0.8 back in 03 0r 04, so I'm quite committed even though rarely seen on the forum.

Please let me know if I can help. I don't do code or build puplets etc, I'm just a fan and I like the community.

cheers,
Steve

" Can I help with editing the news page? Am I right in looking here: "

That's the attitude I like to see.
What is also needed are Puppy reviews kept up to date.
The other thing that is annoying...Puplets.

Get announced...where are they.

PM the Crustacean one...Lobster,
may get you a prompt reply.

stevoomba.
Go over your way quite often.

Chris.

for the latest news, or is there a better news page?

there is this
http://twitter.com/PUPPY_LINUX

. . . you could contact the Rusian guy and offer to dual twitter
contact prit1 or raffy to up your status to edit news on the website
(you can send a PM from this forum)

I would suggest using twitter - fast and up to date - and easy to use
You will have to persuade Raffy and Prithish about putting a news link to a twitter page if yougo thatroute

Tell us how you get on. Report back. Good luck

Twitter? More diffusion.

cthisbear wrote: stevoomba.
Go over your way quite often.
Chris.

Actually I've recently moved to Rye Park, which is out near Yass. Here's my website.http://ryepark.triorbit.com/

I had lived in Katoomba from 99 to 07, but the name's a bit irrelevant now...

stevoomba wrote: Actually I've recently moved to Rye Park, which is out near Yass. Here's my website.http://ryepark.triorbit.com/

I had lived in Katoomba from 99 to 07, but the name's a bit irrelevant now...

I've been in your neck of the woods a couple times on trips, actually I would rather live in the sticks than live in Sydney, My wife likes it here, but I like the open outdoors better.
ttuuxxx

ttuuxxx wrote:

stevoomba wrote: I've been in your neck of the woods a couple times on trips, actually I would rather live in the sticks than live in Sydney, My wife likes it here, but I like the open outdoors better.
ttuuxxx

My girlfriend and I are very lucky that we both wanted to live in the bush and we were finally able to make the move this year after her teenage daughter finished school and got a job and moved to Coogee. Then you couldn't see us for dust.

I'm with Jeff, I personally prefer to have news accessible from within the puppylinux.org site, as a simple /news directory, with a little bit of a blurb about each item. The last time I saw this was the May 5 entry which looked like this:

-------------------
Friday 01st of May 2009
Barry Kauler Returns

Barry will head development of 5.xx series of Puppy
Warren Willson (Whodo) will coordinate some of the effort

Blog announcement

Available today is an alpha 6 woof build from Barry
'Jaunty Puppy' is an Upuptu or Upup
which utilises elements of the best of Puppy
and the latest Ubuntu streamlined with Puppy magic

Puppy 4.2.1 Final release is also imminent
-------------------

I'd be quite happy to keep it going like that if people can email me stuff that needs to go there plus I can keep an eye out on the blogs and make an executive decision if something looks newsworthy. I think each new puplet could have an entry, and certainly each main release. People could pm me with stuff etc.

Any thoughts on what constitutes newsworthiness?

Hey, thanks for the offer, Steve. Am trying to add you as editor but there are other Steve's in the list.

raffy wrote:Hey, thanks for the offer, Steve. Am trying to add you as editor but there are other Steve's in the list.

Thanks Raffy, let me know when you've got me set up and I can get started...

If this topic is about the new website look .. then my first fast impression

First of all: I get confused could not quickly go to the forum happened to have an old page open.

Too much reading

Is puppy ? > yes puppy is. Can you get ? > yes you can.

Personnaly I do not like the faq-language, double words, very inefficient.

Imo the old homepage is more efficient though there might be a more explanitive information under the bars.
Now you have to do too much reading before knowing anything.

\Sorry foir the efforts. Hopefully I am the only one.

Cannot even go straigt to the forum etc.

Sorry, nancy, the page you saw is the wikka under construction (or it could be the static site used during forced server outage, ie, when the host shuts the site down).

There has been an accident at the server root, and I hope it can be restored in 24 hours.

raffy wrote:Sorry, nancy, the page you saw is the wikka under construction (or it could be the static site used during forced server outage, ie, when the host shuts the site down).

There has been an accident at the server root, and I hope it can be restored in 24 hours.

Sorry I was really frightened for I thought they are just -spoiling- instead -improving-

The main site has been restored from the backups.

Thanks a lot, prit, that's 1 hour from problem to solution.

This is to announce to everyone that we are moving information from Drupal (including the Drupal wiki) to the new news site and wikka wiki. The relevant discussion is here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=44576

News and articles should go to the news site and manuals and documentation should go to the wikka wiki.

Apologies to everyone if this was not made very very clear. We've been having outages because of the "heavy" nature of the Drupal CMS as implemented at the site, so we are moving to light-and-fast version of things.

Prit is putting finishing touches to a "Puppy Dynamic" that will take in screenshots, puplets and comments. This will be useful for many ordinary users.

Most contributors should find the wikka wiki a good place to post technical information.

EDIT: A strange thing is happening - Drupal is causing "not found" error (this causes automatic redirection to the static site). Prit is investigating the problem. I have also requested Whodo to inquire from Hostgator about it.

I put an announcement on the old news page, giving the "News CMS for Puppy Linux" thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=44576
as the toipic to go to for permissions etc.

Is there a way to make a sticky item or a banner on that old page, or can it be redirected? If new items get added there then the announcement will get lost.

Steve

Done as suggested.

Well, as it happened, Prit has to restore from database backup because of missing "Home" pages. As a result, the news page is now a month late.

Sorry for the inconvenience, guys.

Most contributors should find the wikka wiki a good place to post technical information.

the original wiki is good up to aprox Puppy 4.12
http://pupweb.org/wikka/AboutPuppy

The new wiki is running the latest version of the wikka software
but will take a while to upgrade for Puppy 4.3 and beyond
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HomePage

raffy wrote:Done as suggested.

Thanks Raffy. Having those links is a great solution.