Version: cvs 200308013 (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc 3.2.2 OS: Linux The kdevelop website looks quite old, and the documentation is not quite up-to-date. Gideon has become quite stable these times some volunteers have written tutorials and documentation. It is now important that these documents are made available to everybody. I suggest to give write permissions to someone who is often on IRC (amilcar, teatime) and who is likely to keep the website on the bleeding edge ;-)
That doesn't sound like a feature request, more like something for the mailing list.
This should not be closed until the whish is granted! This has been discussed many times on the mailing list and on the IRC, still no action has been taken. Mostly because the people that have write permissions don't have time and/or interest on updating the site and the people that do care, don't have write permissions.
I agree: the topic has been discussed on the mailing list several times but nothing has changed. Hope that someone will listen to this because the website's state and maintenance is a bit unknown to me (is part of the KDE? sponsored? (by which?) Privately owned? And the questions like these ...).
Here is the answer from Falk Brettschneider: The last people who've made changes to the website were Caleb Tennis, Harry F. and me. Seems none of them has the time for maintaining currently, including me. :-( The web server is the university of Potsdam in Germany (the uni where Ex-KDeveloper Bernd Gehrmann, Ralf Funken and Sandy Meier came from). Sandy Meier is still the owner and root user of the website files location, but he's been 99,9% inactive since 2 or 3 years. On demand, he only gives website access accounts to new KDevelop team members who also want to maintain the website. Just contact him by email (See CC of this mail). Every work on that server is based on unsolicited work. The website itself is accessed and changed via cvs file management. So Sandy will give you a cvs user account to that server. The file structure on the server is the same as the structure in the internet. the layout is programmed in PHP, e.g. a half year ago I changed the layout from classic KDevelop style to the light blue KDE-layout-feeling. The website is a multi-language one, where English is default. To support a new different language than English, one just need to copy the English sub tree to a certain new subdir for that language and to translate all strings of the PHP and HTML files. Usually, there's one maintainer registered for each language, in reality, currently, only French, Russian and German is maintained by certain people (annma, me and adymo). It must be checked which currently inactive translators should be unregistered and replaced with a new volunteer for that language. The common mechanism for changing the content of a page of www.kdevelop.org is to first change the English version of the web page file. Next midnight all registered translators will get an email with a notification about the changed files with the plea to translate the appropriate language-specific copy. Now they can cvs-update, translate the changed files and commit back. All translators also have access to the original English version. All cvs commits to the website repository will be online with the next full hour. A permanently running background process on the web server always synchronizes the website with the cvs repository, automatically. As extra feature, the ChangeLog of the kdevelop source code repository is shown on the main web page, also synchronized with every full hour. If you want to join to that current mechanism, say you want to become a maintainer for the main contents (English) or just a translator for a certain language (passively translating what the English guys are changing), just get the account (by Sandy). Total redesigns and big changes to the website have first to be discussed with the other KDevelop developers on the mailing-list, but usually, it will be suppressed because the current mechanism is so cool that it must not be changed. :-P Hope, that helps Ciao F@lk
I've got write permissions and I did some updates. Stay tuned, more changes to come! If you have some docs, screeshots, tutorials, ideas, fotos... send them to me.
*** Bug has been marked as fixed ***.
NO, the bug is not fixed! I've been updating thge site. It's not done yet!
OK, this time I'm happy! We have: -Updated pages -Moved and concentrated old KDevelop 2.x info in a single webpage. -Information on the bottom of every page informing when that page was last updated. -A nice change log for every release PLUS a link to the solved bugs at bugzilla database. -Automaticaly updated API documentation (cross linked with KDElibs, Qt and bugzilla) -Automaticaly updated User Manual. -Some more tutorials. -Much improved requirements page (links to where to get the software). -Much improved TODO and current status (programing languages, editor support) as a side effect of the doxygen API documentation. -Added a way to browse the code (lxr)