[web-team] Catching up (site maintenance)

[Edward Cherlin]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Hi, I've been kept busy and not attending to site maintenance.  Sorry
> about that.  I note that http://www.svlug.org/installfest/ currently
> has:
>
>  The Regular Time
>
>  Third Saturdays, every single month.
>  11 am 'til 4 pm
>  For the next few months, that will be:
>
>  May 17, 2008
>
>
> See, this is _exactly_ why that page should always list the next several
> upcoming dates -- and that's what I always have done.  Someone on the
> Web Team recently (late April, early May) evidently decided otherwise,
> which predictably landed us in the current situation.  Bad.  Does
> everyone see why that's a bad idea?  I mentioned that fact on Volunteers
> when I saw the change in April/May, but nobody fixed it, and so here we
> are.  (Most recent edit per RCS was by Daniel.)
>
> Changed to:
>
>   The Regular Time
>
>   Third Saturdays, every single month.
>   11 am 'til 4 pm
>   For the next few months, that will be:
>
>   Sat., June 28th _(note one-time date change)_
>   Sat., July 19th
>   Sat., August 16th
>   Sat., September 20th

Thanks, Rick. I started to work on the schedule, but got put off by
not being able to unravel the tr and td tag structure.

> ("em" tags, here, are rendered as underscores.)
>
> There's a tendency, in Web site maintenance, to forget to look at pages
> other than the front page.  (E.g., our front page notes the installfest
> one-time date change, but nobody checked the installfest page.)

Fair cop, guv'nor.

I'm not going to respond line by line to the rest of what you wrote.
There is much information and good advice here, which I intend to go
over the next time I get on the server.

Thanks.
-- 
Edward Cherlin
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