[469] in athena10
Re: athena 10 page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy G Abbott)
Tue Aug 26 00:32:51 2008
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:32:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Jonathan Reed wrote:
>> I think it's fine for Athena 10 to be using the Debathena stylesheet;
>> Anders' rant at the top of the css files was induced by unrelated SIPB
>> projects using the stylesheet. While I think it is silly in the first
>> place, I don't think his concern applies to Athena 10.
>
>
> They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...
>
> So one thing I'm still not clear on is how "branded" this is going to be.
> I'm not overly concerned for the preview release, but with the upcoming IS&T
> web redesign, I suspect the page will crop up on someone's radar as something
> that needs a "graphic identity". I briefly toyed with the idea of using the
> new templates (which are green and grey instead of red and black/beige -
> they're actually quite attractive, except that their version of the owl logo
> looks downright evil), but I didn't put too much thought into it.
>
> One larger question, however, is where the documentation will live and who
> will maintain it?
>
> For example, right now, a page on remote access
> (http://debathena.mit.edu/access-controls) is maintained on the Debathena
> site. Should Athena 10 docs link to this? Should it move to the Athena 10
> site? I don't particularly care where it ends up, but I very much feel
> there should be one canonical source for documentation, because if there are
> multiple sources, one will inevitably succumb to bitrot. I'll note that
> Hermes will be ramping up over the next few months, and it will help blur the
> line between "official" documentation and "community" documentation.
>
> I would envision Athena 10/Debathena documentation living in Hermes, in the
> IS&T space, with anything that applies to unsupported versions living in the
> Community space. But perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself.
>
> (For those of you who haven't yet heard of it, Hermes is a "Big Initiative"
> that will replace itinfo.mit.edu, the OLC stock answers (web/answers) and
> more. Oliver can elaborate :-)
I agree that it is best not to have redundant documentation, as often one
copy goes stale. I'd like to see the Hermes interfaces for users and
developers before deciding to move content there.
-Tim Abbott
