A website for this project #2

Open strypey opened 6 years ago

Once we confirm our final name, we need to get a website up and running. I've done the 'Learn Enough Git to be Dangerous' tutorial, which walked me through creating and maintaining GH sites, and the same steps pretty much work on GitLab. Shall we:

set up a GH organisation so we can have a separate repo for the homepage along with the repo for the app itself? OR
host the Codename homepage on GitLab?

Or is it possible to make the homepage part of the app repo?

I can host a homepage on my servers, that's not a problem. Just need a few bucks for a domain.

I'd set up a GitHub organization anyway because that allows me to invite you as an owner. Otherwise, as long as the project is officially "mine", you can't get this level of permissions.

We should first decide on a name, though, and then think about further steps.

On 2018-04-27 14:21, TheAssassin wrote:

I can host a homepage on my servers, that's not a problem.

I'm fine with that. But since we're using GH anyway, it would make it easier to recruit a volunteer to be a webmaster, if working on it only requires altering a GH repo.

Just need a few bucks for a domain.

I'm happy to stump up for that. Once we are up and running, I could ask for donations on the Trisquel forums. I'm hoping our fork will become the officially recommended app for making boot media on the Trisquel wiki.

I'd set up a GitHub organization anyway because that allows me to invite you as an owner ... We should first decide on a name, though, and then think about further steps.

Makes sense. Did you see the email on naming I send you today, with some ideas about trying to use 'image'?

Hosting a website != developing on a website. I am hosting a lot of websites whose source code is on GitHub, e.g., https://newpipe.schabi.org (https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/website/) or https://appimage.org (https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/tree/gh-pages).

I didn't try to say I need to collect money to rent a domain, I'll happily sponsor it.

I saw your mail, I'll reply later. In any case, I'm fine with your non-"image" suggestion.

On 2018-04-27 19:26, TheAssassin wrote:

Hosting a website != developing on a website.

Ok. Do you mean we'd have a repo for the website on GH, under our GH organisation, and you'd deploy to your server from that repo? Sounds fine to me.

I didn't try to say I need to collect money to rent a domain, I'll happily sponsor it.

That's good of you. Just trying to make sure I'm pulling my weight ;)

OK, so now we've got our final name; Fetcher. Once you've set up the organization, I will create a repo for a simple homepage.

Next step is to get a domain name. Fetcher is a common word so most of the .com .org etc are already taken, but we could either use a more obscure extension (www.fetcher.gratis?), or something like fetcher-app.org?

https://github.com/fetcher is already taken. We should decide on a domain name, and use that for the organization as well to provide some consistent experience.

In reply to your comment in #4 , the website for me is not mainly for promotion of the app as a product, but for promoting the project we have undertaken, and encouraging more people to contribute (including graphic designers). I was just thinking that working on images for the app (as mentioned in #4 ) may be more attractive to a graphic designer if they can do a consistent design across the whole project (homepage included), and put that on their CV and in their portfolio etc.

Sorry I've left this hanging for so long. Are you still working on it? It would be great to have it ready to promote when Trisquel 9 is released.

I haven't invested any much more time in here since, I've been quite busy with other things, and this won't get better for the next weeks. Right now, I think we're best off presenting the project here on GitHub properly. Edit: meant like, "set up domain and have it redirect here" or something like that.

I developed the idea of creating a better image writer in a real programming language like C++ last year, there's also libraries for this that you just need to plug together. It shall be as minimal as possible, and provide a look and feel similar to this app (but maybe less fancy, a tool for "engineers" I'd say, that just does one job and does it right). So this project is only temporary until I get to start hacking on that.

Please open issues and describe what needs to be done, and I'll try to find some time to work on those.

I agree we need to be clear on what our project is before it's worth even thinking about a website. I've started a new issue to discuss that (#5).

TheAssassin / fetcher

A website for this project #2