[libre-riscv-dev] wiki usability issues

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 3:57 AM Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
<lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 10:56 AM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >  if you can track down the CSS that adds it, feel free to let me know
> > > the change that's needed.  you should be able to edit it:
> > >  https://libre-riscv.org/local.css
> > fixed.
>
>  awesome.
>
> > watch out for needing a full refresh, chrome didn't notice the
> > changes with just F5.
>
>  yehyeh, static CSS, cached, with nginx setting quite a long timeout.
> Ctrl-F5 tends to work.
>
> > >  there's a way to do that using sitemap.  map directive.  found it.
> > > added to the index.
> > >  https://libre-riscv.org/sitemap/
> > yay
>
>  i'm surprised that adding search was easy.
>
> > >  that's done by adding [[toc]] or something to each page, at a
> > > location that the author of that page deems suitable.
> > isn't there a way to add some html that's added to every page? if
> > there is, maybe have each page link to the sitemap or something.
>
>  mumble, grumble, i seem to recall it's necessary to hand-edit the
> ikiwiki html templates, creating a custom theme.
>
> > > it sends completely the wrong message to have authoritative resources
> > > for libre-riscv managed completely by some other third party's domain.
> > > storing data and resource on other peoples' servers says "we're not
> > > competent or fit to run the project".
> > ok, I was just thinking that gitlab has a pretty nice interface.
>
>  we tried it, remember?  and ruby and gitlab itself consumed nearly
> all of the resources of the entire mythic-beasts.com VM (which is only
> GBP 8/month).  it would have been necessary to jump to the next
> payment level up, which i seem to recall was double that amount.
yeah, I remember it not working on the server, which is why I had
suggested salsa.
>
> > > now, i have no problem with the resources looking like they came
> > > straight out of the 1990s, on the basis that if people *really* want
> > > better, they can *offer their time and resources to improve it*.
> > one part that might help that's easy to do is to switch the background
> > color to something other than light yellow, maybe to a very light grey
> > or white if you like light colors, otherwise, I'd recommend going with
> > a dark background and switching the text to white, which will be more
> > work.
>
>  white was too harsh, grey was too dull, it looked.. lifeless.
> accidentally set it to a sort-of... well, it's #fff8ff and i kinda
> like it :)
much better :)
>
> > > off-site copy of the configuration *and* the data, perform the upgrade
> > > on a test site, and then and only then if that goes well, perform the
> > > upgrade "live".
> > fun.
>
>  for another time :)
>
> l.
>
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