mitwi : test release (GSoC work)

[ria das]

Hi,

mitwi is my  summer of code project which stands for "man info through
web interface"
I uploaded the code of mitwi for the test release. You can see it here
http://publictest1.fedora.redhat.com/mitwi/index.cgi

The test contains only man pages from Fedora 7 and very few info
pages. I will add different languages slowly (though they are present
in the server). As I don't understand css much, I took the css from
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ .

Looking forward to your comments and suggestions (and also a good design :-) )

Ria Das

[Rahul Sundaram]

ria das wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  mitwi is my  summer of code project which stands for "man info through
>  web interface"
>  I uploaded the code of mitwi for the test release. You can see it here
>  http://publictest1.fedora.redhat.com/mitwi/index.cgi
>  
>  The test contains only man pages from Fedora 7 and very few info
>  pages. I will add different languages slowly (though they are present
>  in the server). As I don't understand css much, I took the css from
>  http://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ .
>  
>  Looking forward to your comments and suggestions (and also a good design :-) ) 
Good work. Just pointing things I think can be changed:

We don't have a search interface

The URL's should be shorted than

http://publictest1.fedora.redhat.com/mitwi/index.cgi?man=./man/mann/ansi_...

Something like the following would be better

docs.fedoraproject.org/man/<page>

which then lists the release and version numbers on top with the latest 
man page listed below automatically would work well

Will these information be indexable by search engines or are you 
generating them on fly? Indexable static content that are periodically 
updated would be better.

You can talk to the websites team for using a better CSS. A standard 
template was posted last week in fedora-websites list.

Rahul

[Sam Folk-Williams]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  ria das wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > mitwi is my  summer of code project which stands for "man info through
> > web interface"
> > I uploaded the code of mitwi for the test release. You can see it here
> > http://publictest1.fedora.redhat.com/mitwi/index.cgi
> >
> > The test contains only man pages from Fedora 7 and very few info
> > pages. I will add different languages slowly (though they are present
> > in the server). As I don't understand css much, I took the css from
> > http://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ .
> >
> > Looking forward to your comments and suggestions (and also a good 
> > design :-) )
>  
>  Good work. Just pointing things I think can be changed:
>  
>  We don't have a search interface
>  
>  The URL's should be shorted than
>  
>
> http://publictest1.fedora.redhat.com/mitwi/index.cgi?man=./man/mann/ansi_...
>
>  
>  
>  Something like the following would be better
>  
>  docs.fedoraproject.org/man/<page>
>  
>  which then lists the release and version numbers on top with the latest 
>  man page listed below automatically would work well
>  
>  Will these information be indexable by search engines or are you 
>  generating them on fly? Indexable static content that are periodically 
>  updated would be better.
>  
>  You can talk to the websites team for using a better CSS. A standard 
>  template was posted last week in fedora-websites list.
>   
This is a great project! Very cool - thanks for doing this!

I'm also missing the lack of search interface. The other thing is when 
you have the list of commands a-z could you add an alphabet on the top 
and just display "a" by default, then users can click the letter they 
want to display. This would be good in addition to search, I think.

Thanks again!

Sam
>  Rahul
>  
>  
>

[Jeff Sheltren]

On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:33 PM, ria das wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>  mitwi is my  summer of code project which stands for "man info through
>  web interface"
>  I uploaded the code of mitwi for the test release. 
Hi Ria, this is great news! 
Congratulations on your first test release!

>  You can see it here
>  http://publictest1.fedora.redhat.com/mitwi/index.cgi 
I'm just getting a blank
page there currently...

-Jeff

[John Babich]

On 8/9/07, Jeff Sheltren <sheltren(a)cs.ucsb.edu&gt; wrote:
>  On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:33 PM, ria das wrote:
>
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > mitwi is my  summer of code project which stands for "man info through
>  > web interface"
>  > I uploaded the code of mitwi for the test release.
>  Hi Ria, this is great news!  Congratulations on your first test release!
>  
Ria:

First of all, congratulations on the completion of your project. I'm a
committed advocate of "FOSS docs the FOSS way" and this is a big step
in the right direction.

>  > You can see it here
>  > http://publictest1.fedora.redhat.com/mitwi/index.cgi
>  I'm just getting a blank page there currently...
>  
Sorry to say that's the same for me. Maybe you need to publish some
directions on how to use it, if you haven't already.

Best Regards,

John Babich
Volunteer, Fedora Project

[ria das]

On 8/9/07, John Babich <jmbabich(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Sorry to say that's the same for me. Maybe you need to publish
> some
>  directions on how to use it, if you haven't already.
>  
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. Now trying to fix my
blank page error. More mails are coming from me soon.

Ria Das

[ria das]

On 8/9/07, Jeff Sheltren <sheltren(a)cs.ucsb.edu&gt; wrote:
>  Hi Ria, this is great news!  Congratulations on your first test
> release! 
Thank You :-)

>  I'm just getting a blank page there currently... 
Hopefuly
problem fixed.

Ria Das

[Rahul Sundaram]

ria das wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  mitwi is my  summer of code project which stands for "man info through
>  web interface"
>  I uploaded the code of mitwi for the test release. You can see it here
>  http://publictest1.fedora.redhat.com/mitwi/index.cgi
>   
Another thing to look at

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi

Rahul

[ria das]

On 8/10/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:

>  Another thing to look at
>
>  http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi 

A basic search option is added now :-)

Ria Das

[Paulo Santos]

Hi Ria,

Great work with this project, it will definitely be a good addition to us :)

Some problems i found so far:
- as you might have noticed sometimes you have more then one single entry
per command in the list (would be nice to explain the difference to the end
user
- when you click "Return to Main Contents", the new main page removes the
right hand side column and the copyright information as well

Looking forward to see the results of your finalized project!!
happy coding :)

Paulo

On 8/9/07, ria das <mailtoria(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 8/10/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; wrote:
>
>  > Another thing to look at
>  >
>  > http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi
>
>
>  A basic search option is added now :-)
>
>  Ria Das
>
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