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Reported by geofft, 14 years ago.

There's a nifty zephyr bot that will expand Trac ticket numbers into ticket titles (much like ubottu on IRC). It runs out of Evan's personal account on Linerva. It should run somewhere else.

Reported by geofft, 14 years ago.

Apparently, we recently upgraded W20-575 to Debathena on Jaunty and are planning to upgrade the other clusters soon....

Maybe someone should be assigned to spend 5 minutes at/after release-team (since that's the closest thing to a timer interrupt the project has) to determine if we need anything new in that section?

Alternatively, I hear we have plans about rethinking our development process and sending package update notification somewhere. Perhaps we can integrate "Determine if this is interesting enough to note on the website" into that workflow.

Reported by geofft, 14 years ago.

I made this mockup some time ago:  http://debathena.geofft.scripts.mit.edu/

Features include nice clickable buttons, a fairly large subtitle that attempts to get across the gist of the project, a layout that keeps everything above the fold, and slightly less of a wall of text effect. Nonfeatures include that it displays terribly in IE on Windows, that it doesn't link to everything (maybe we want some sort of tabbed layout, actually?), and I'm not completely pleased with the phrasing of the subtitle.

We should finish this off and deploy it.

Note that this is blocking on #703, since "Recent news" is a big part of the layout, and probably on #702 so that we get to the point where a graphical installer is easy. (I think we can finagle things so that it effectively is an installer that runs when you click it, if you pull dirty tricks with gdebi.) We can certainly let that link continue to the download-this-shell-script instructions in the short term, though.