Thread: Building Press Pages for Web site
Folks, OK, with release back on a schedule, I notice that I never got a response to last week's posting of the press pages. I'll have a package of updated press pages (just the dates change) tommorrow. Can I hear from someone that they'll go on the website on Tuesday morning, US time? I'd like to have the translators look at them for last-minute fixes before release. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
> -----Original Message----- > From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org > [mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Josh Berkus > Sent: 15 January 2005 20:50 > To: PostgreSQL WWW Mailing List > Subject: [pgsql-www] Building Press Pages for Web site > > Folks, > > OK, with release back on a schedule, I notice that I never > got a response to > last week's posting of the press pages. > > I'll have a package of updated press pages (just the dates > change) tommorrow. Are they in the correct format for the site, or currently raw text or HTML? > Can I hear from someone that they'll go on the website on > Tuesday morning, > US time? I'd like to have the translators look at them for > last-minute > fixes before release. I'll put them up (assuming they don't need masses of reformatting), but I'll want to do it asap rather than Tuesday (I can fix any minor errors found between then and Tues, and leave them hidden until then). I have a few other things to do as well so want to get a bit of flexibility! Regards, Dave.
Dave, > Are they in the correct format for the site, or currently raw text or > HTML? They're HTML, set up for the new site. However, I really haven't dealt with encoding issues, and some may have HTML typos we'll find when we put them up. All but 2 are finished. I'm waiting on translators to update the dates on the Turkish and Greek translations (my poor text editor can't handle those languages!). However, even those files won't be changing more than one line, so you could set them up now and update them later. > I'll put them up (assuming they don't need masses of reformatting), but > I'll want to do it asap rather than Tuesday (I can fix any minor errors > found between then and Tues, and leave them hidden until then). I have a > few other things to do as well so want to get a bit of flexibility! If you can put them on the site, but not link them from anywhere now, it would be lovely. Also, please update the Contacts List in /about/press/contacts.html (file below) If possible, I'd prefer it if we didn't go live on the changes to the home page and linking the press releases until after 5pm PST, which should be easy for you ...just set it up in the morning your time, or the afternoon, Omar and Emily's time. Here's the things I see needing to get done on the web site the "day of" the release: 1) Modify the home page to display the 8.0 released callout. 2) Link the press releases to /about/press 3) Link in the Press FAQ (should be in CVS already) The Contacts list is available at: http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000047/31/contact.html The amalgamated press lists are available at: http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000047/30/all_press_pages.tgz .... please note that this latter page requires you to be logged in to pgFoundry, and is only available for members of the Press project (I've added dpage). Thanks for your help, and hopefully this will be *considerably* less panicked than last year! -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
> -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com] > Sent: 16 January 2005 01:07 > To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org > Cc: Dave Page > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Building Press Pages for Web site > > Dave, > > > Are they in the correct format for the site, or currently > raw text or > > HTML? > > They're HTML, set up for the new site. However, I really > haven't dealt with > encoding issues, and some may have HTML typos we'll find when > we put them up. > > All but 2 are finished. I'm waiting on translators to > update the dates on > the Turkish and Greek translations (my poor text editor can't > handle those > languages!). However, even those files won't be changing > more than one > line, so you could set them up now and update them later. Excellent. > If you can put them on the site, but not link them from > anywhere now, it would > be lovely. I'll link them from somewhere but keep them hidden. That way they'll get sync'ed onto the mirrors. > Also, please update the Contacts List > in /about/press/contacts.html (file below) OK. > If possible, I'd prefer it if we didn't go live on the > changes to the home > page and linking the press releases until after 5pm PST, > which should be easy > for you ...just set it up in the morning your time, or the > afternoon, Omar > and Emily's time. Here's the things I see needing to get > done on the web > site the "day of" the release: > > 1) Modify the home page to display the 8.0 released callout. > 2) Link the press releases to /about/press > 3) Link in the Press FAQ (should be in CVS already) OK, I'm thinking these should be done Tuesday for the Wednesday release yes? That gives everything a chance to hit the mirrors. > The Contacts list is available at: > http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000047/31/contact.html > > The amalgamated press lists are available at: > http://pgfoundry.org/docman/view.php/1000047/30/all_press_pages.tgz > .... please note that this latter page requires you to be > logged in to > pgFoundry, and is only available for members of the Press > project (I've added > dpage). > > Thanks for your help, and hopefully this will be > *considerably* less panicked > than last year! With any luck :-) /D
Dave Page wrote: <snip> > OK, I'm thinking these should be done Tuesday for the Wednesday release > yes? That gives everything a chance to hit the mirrors. Cron job? Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift -- "One who sees the invisible can do the impossible." + Frank Gaines
Dave, > I'll link them from somewhere but keep them hidden. That way they'll get > sync'ed onto the mirrors. Keen, good idea. > OK, I'm thinking these should be done Tuesday for the Wednesday release > yes? That gives everything a chance to hit the mirrors. Yes, but not until late afternoon USA time. There are enough people watching our site that having the 8.0 graphic go up could get us slashdotted before the release goes out. This means that probably someone *not* in your time zone should do it; the ideal time for stuff to go up is about 4am your time Wednesday. Or, like Justin suggests, a cron job. BTW, this is something to think about for www.postgresql.org version 4.0. Perhaps by then Bricolage will have translation facility, and we can switch over. Having the ability to schedule stuff to appear at a specific date and time would save a lot of tsuris. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
> -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com] > Sent: 16 January 2005 18:54 > To: Dave Page > Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Building Press Pages for Web site > > Yes, but not until late afternoon USA time. There are enough > people watching > our site that having the 8.0 graphic go up could get us > slashdotted before > the release goes out. This means that probably someone *not* > in your time > zone should do it; the ideal time for stuff to go up is about > 4am your time > Wednesday. > > Or, like Justin suggests, a cron job. I tend not to trust stuff like that to a cron job. Anyway, the thing to remember is that theres something like a 5 hour maximum window between something being committed to CVS and it getting as far as the primary site, so as long as that is factored in we'll be OK. The release announcement is actually on the home page already, but commented out , so if someone in the appropriate tz can simply update the the page and commit it in time... Who can do that? > BTW, this is something to think about for www.postgresql.org > version 4.0. Bwaahahahahahaha! After the fun getting version 3 done, I don't even want to think about version 4 for at least 18 months. :-) /D
Dave, OK, Greek, Turkish and Japanese have been updated; the package is in the same location. BTW, all of this is also available via CVS from the Press project. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
> -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com] > Sent: 16 January 2005 21:47 > To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org > Cc: Dave Page > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Building Press Pages for Web site > > Dave, > > OK, Greek, Turkish and Japanese have been updated; the > package is in the same > location. BTW, all of this is also available via CVS from the Press > project. Hi Josh - I'll grab those in a minute, but in the meantime I've added the pages - you can find them at http://pgweb.pgadmin.org/about/press/presskit80.html.??. They are committed to CVS, so will hit the main site in a bit. There are some issues though: 1) el and hu are badly formatted. There are html tags at and around the page title blocks that need to be removed. 2) el, fr, ja, pl, se and tr are not in utf-8 (as far as my language ignorant brain can tell). The entire site is dispatched in utf-8, and changing that is non-trivial. Can these be recoded so that they display correctly? 3) I needed to add some languages to the website framework, for which I do not have to proper localised description (eg. en == English, de == Deutsch). Can you ask the translators to let me know the correct description **encoded in ASCII using HTML entity codes where required** for the following please? br, el, fi, hu, it, pl, ro, ru, se, si. Thanks, Dave.
Dave, > 1) el and hu are badly formatted. There are html tags at and around the > page title blocks that need to be removed. OK, will check. > 2) el, fr, ja, pl, se and tr are not in utf-8 (as far as my language > ignorant brain can tell). The entire site is dispatched in utf-8, and > changing that is non-trivial. Can these be recoded so that they display > correctly? This is why I brought up the encoding issue last week. At the time, no one had an opinion. I can command-line convert them to UTF8, and we'll see how they look. > 3) I needed to add some languages to the website framework, for which I > do not have to proper localised description (eg. en == English, de == > Deutsch). Can you ask the translators to let me know the correct > description **encoded in ASCII using HTML entity codes where required** > for the following please? br, el, fi, hu, it, pl, ro, ru, se, si. Hmmm ... given that I don't understand what **encoded in ASCII using HTML entity codes where required** means, it's a cinch some of the translators won't either. Enlighten me? -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
> -----Original Message----- > From: Josh Berkus [mailto:josh@agliodbs.com] > Sent: 16 January 2005 22:12 > To: Dave Page > Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Building Press Pages for Web site > > Dave, > > > 1) el and hu are badly formatted. There are html tags at > and around the > > page title blocks that need to be removed. > > OK, will check. Sorry, I didn't check well enough. From the pr cvs, the following need fixing: de, fi, hu, ja, pl, se, si > > > 2) el, fr, ja, pl, se and tr are not in utf-8 (as far as my language > > ignorant brain can tell). The entire site is dispatched in > utf-8, and > > changing that is non-trivial. Can these be recoded so that > they display > > correctly? > > This is why I brought up the encoding issue last week. At > the time, no one > had an opinion. I can command-line convert them to UTF8, > and we'll see how > they look. Sorry, I must have missed that question. > > 3) I needed to add some languages to the website framework, > for which I > > do not have to proper localised description (eg. en == > English, de == > > Deutsch). Can you ask the translators to let me know the correct > > description **encoded in ASCII using HTML entity codes > where required** > > for the following please? br, el, fi, hu, it, pl, ro, ru, se, si. > > Hmmm ... given that I don't understand what **encoded in > ASCII using HTML > entity codes where required** means, it's a cinch some of the > translators > won't either. Enlighten me? HTML entity codes may be used for non-ASCII characters, e.g. Álvaro's name has an accent over the A, so we can code it inASCII as: Álvaro Herrera Thanks, Dave.
Dave, Everything else has been fixed, in the new file I uploaded. However, I've agreed with Tatsuo that it's better to put the Japanese press release only on postgresql.jp. It will not be on www.postgresql.org. So I will be changing the link in the English version of the press release, and you shouldn't post the japanese release. Thanks! --Josh -- __Aglio Database Solutions_______________ Josh Berkus Consultant josh@agliodbs.com www.agliodbs.com Ph: 415-752-2500 Fax: 415-752-2387 2166 Hayes Suite 200 San Francisco, CA
On Jan 17, 2005, at 15:43, Josh Berkus wrote: > However, I've agreed with Tatsuo that it's better to put the Japanese > press > release only on postgresql.jp. It will not be on > www.postgresql.org. So > I will be changing the link in the English version of the press > release, and > you shouldn't post the japanese release. I'm curious to know what the reasons are/were for leaving the Japanese press releases off of the main site. Didn't see it posted to the list. Would it be possible to see the archives of that discussion? Thanks! Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com
Michael, > I'm curious to know what the reasons are/were for leaving the Japanese > press releases off of the main site. Didn't see it posted to the list. > Would it be possible to see the archives of that discussion? We were having issues with encodings, and with page formatting, and JPUG wants to direct people primarily to postgresql.jp anyway. For most languages, it's easier for us to populate the main website, and let the regions/languages with their own websites grab copies if they want them. Japanese was turning into a pain, so we just dropped that idea. Of course, if you want to fix the Japanese page and load it onto wwwmaster, you're welcome to. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
On Jan 17, 2005, at 16:04, Josh Berkus wrote: > We were having issues with encodings, and with page formatting, and > JPUG wants > to direct people primarily to postgresql.jp anyway. For most > languages, > it's easier for us to populate the main website, and let the > regions/languages with their own websites grab copies if they want > them. > Japanese was turning into a pain, so we just dropped that idea. > > Of course, if you want to fix the Japanese page and load it onto > wwwmaster, > you're welcome to. I'd be happy to give it a shot. I'd like to see www.postgresql.org handle as much as possible. I can't promise I'd get it done by prior to the release, especially as someone else will have to commit it (we're down to hours now, aren't we?), but if I'd like to try. (And even if it's not a benefit now, at least the groundwork will be in place for the future.) Any particular place I can grab the Japanese page and a sample of another so I can see what the goal is? Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com
Michael, > Any particular place I can grab the Japanese page and a sample of > another so I can see what the goal is? Yeah, got a login on pgFoundry? And have you considered joining our Translators mailing list? -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
On Jan 17, 2005, at 16:30, Josh Berkus wrote: >> Any particular place I can grab the Japanese page and a sample of >> another so I can see what the goal is? > > Yeah, got a login on pgFoundry? And have you considered joining our > Translators mailing list? Indeed I do. Are you referring the PostgreSQL PR project <http://pgfoundry.org/projects/press/> or something else? Sorry if I seem a little slow. I haven't been following this thread very closely. Considered joining the translators list, but I'd be much better going from Japanese to English rather than vice versa, and I have a feeling you've got all the English language help you need. (Then again, it might be nice to raise the international awareness of JPUG, which I should seriously considering joining. Perhaps summaries from time to time might be nice.) Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com