Status of Project Websites

Description

Entries

  • Every entry has an anchor link, but only a project with issues has an anchor.

    Most of the issues have just been copied and pasted from the original document. Therefore, the 'Last Update' field may be a bit off.

Status

  • Excellent - Recently updated, good design

  • Good

  • Fair - Statuses including and below 'Fair' is coloured red

  • Poor - Years since last update, needs visual refresh

  • Dead - This project is abandoned and/or is obsolete

Last Update

  • Recent - Constantly/Recently updated

  • 'Month, Year'
  • Unknown

Issues

  • Yes

  • Yes ( Obsolete ) - Project is obsolete. E.g if project is dead because it has been replaced/merged etc.

  • Yes ( Urgent ) - Urgent issues, e.g a broken link to home page.

Proposed issue-template: 

  • ------
<<Anchor(ProjectName)>>
==== ProjectName ====

===== Issues =====

   Needs more visual style, updates, documentation. Keep content on web site instead of live.gnome.org
   A. Downloads
      1. --(Fix broken link)--
      2. List plugins

===== Progress =====

   Issue #A.1 has been fixed... WikiName
   A new website is being created... WikiName2

Modules

No Issues

Urgent Issues

  • Project

    Status

    Last Update

    Issues

    #Getix

    Poor

    Unknown

    Yes (Urgent)

    #Gnome Print

    Good

    Dec, 2007

    Yes (Urgent)

    #GtkHTML 2

    Dead

    Unknown

    Yes (Urgent)

    #Metacity

    Poor

    Unknown

    Yes (Urgent)

    #OAF

    Dead

    Unknown

    Yes (Urgent)

    #SlashXB

    Poor

    Unknown

    Yes (Urgent)

Issues

Dead / Obsolete

Issues

XMMS

Issues

“I'm not dead yet” ~Monty Python & the Holy Grail

WVare

Issues

This project is part of Abiword and is no longer in development. Site suffers from poor visual design but everything works

Vinagre

Issues

Nice and simple site, but no online documentation of any kind

Totem

Issues

Poor design for the default media player of Gnome. A. Main Page http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/

  • 1.Typo under “Installing from a file” section, “...your package manger will handle future updates...”. Change manger to manager. 2.None of the links except Rpmfind under the “Installing from a file” section link to packages. Deb is missing, Ubuntu links to a restricted formats page, both Fedoras link to tutorials. 3.Still contains an “Installing from CVS”section. Replacing all instances of CVS with SVN will fix this perfectly. 4.Screenshots navigation link at the top leads nowhere.

Sodipodi

Issues

No index page, initially presented with the default apache index. Maintainer has mis-named the index to index.php3. Very roughly translated from Russian, banner remains in Russian. Has not yet reached a stable build and hasn't been updated since 2005. I suggest removal A. Main Page http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3

  • 1.No information about project on main page, only news. Forced to visit the sourceforge page to discover that it was a vector graphics program

B. Download CVS http://www.sodipodi.com/index.php3?section=download/cvs

  • 1.Still uses gnome CVS. Needs to be updated to SVN

Sketch

Issues

Website and Project have been abandoned. I suggest removal

SlashXB

Issues

Links to the IBM open source page, not related to SlashXB at all. Site was previously hosted there but it seems to have been deleted. The project may be dead

Sabayon

Issues
  • Good site and visual design but main page needs to updated

  • Main Page http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/

    • 1.Main Page appears to have not been updated since 0.12 because it links to a blog about that version. Current release is 2.20. 2.The Download section still refers to the gnome CVS repository this needs to be updated to SVN

Rhythmbox

Issues
  • Needs more visual style, updates, documentation. Keep content on web site instead of live.gnome.org

Progress

RadioActive

Issues

Completely replaced by Gnomeradio (http://www.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de/~mfcn/gnomeradio/). The Gnomeradio Website is in Excellent condition and I suggest replacing this entry with it.

Pspell

Issues

Pspell was absorbed by Aspell, the name should be changed on the Gnome projects site to reflect this. Site is plain text only

Pong

Issues

Basic plain text tutorial only, for developers only so this seems satisfactory. There are no download links although this may be included with Gconf.

Planner

Issues

Main Page http://live.gnome.org/Planner

Pkgconfig

Issues

Very simple site for a very simple program A. Main Page http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage

  1. Bazaar repository (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/bzr/) is empty.

PiTiVi

Issues

Wiki only. A. Main Page http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page

  1. “Summer of Code – Follow...Google Summer of Code 20007”. Change to 2007

Peacock

Issues

Links to respective sourceforge page. There are many better HTML editors that have replaced this. I suggest removal.

Pan

Issues

Navigation text is hard to read (poor font choice) A. User Manual http://pan.rebelbase.com/manual/

  • 1.Maintainer states that a user manual is in development, but it has not been created yet

Orca

Issues

A. Downloads http://www.gnome.org/projects/orca/index.html

  • 1.Still refers to the Gnome CVS repository. The text needs to be changed to SVN but the link currently redirects to there

Orbit-Python

Issues

Main Page http://freshmeat.net/redir/pyorbit/36422/url_tgz/pyorbit-2.0.0.tar.gz

  • 1.The download links are one release behind (2.0.0), latest is 2.0.1 2.No on-site documentation of any kind 3.Only minimum info and outdated download links, nothing else

ORBit

Issues

A. Main Page http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/index.html

  • 1.Both of the links in the “Latest News” section link to a blank page 2.“...supported by Red Hat and Ximian as...” the t in Red Hat needs to be bold.

B. Documents http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/documentation.html

  • 1.“Corba in 5 minutes” link is down

C. Download http://www.gnome.org/projects/ORBit2/download.html

  • 1.The “Joining Development” section gives instructions to access the gnome CVS. This needs to be updated to the gnome SVN

D. Bugzilla

  • 1.The Bugzilla navigation link refers to bugzilla.gnome.org instead of the specific ORBit 2 page

E. CVS tree

  • 1.The CVS tree navigation link refers to a missing or moved page 2.This should be changed to instruction for accessing the gnome SVN

Gnome/Openoffice.org

Issues

Seems to be a “placeholder” for a site commenting on the integration of OpenOffice with Gnome but it isn't actually a project page and is extremely outdated. Contains multiple broken links. Since this site is so deprecated and serves no real purpose, I highly suggest replacing this with a link to OpenOffice.org.

OAF

Issues

Site has been moved or removed.

NumExp

Issues

Hasn't been updated in a while but otherwise good

NetworkManager

Issues

Great site! A. Main page http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/

  • 1.“For information on obtaining the NetworkManager source code from GNOME CVS” needs to be changed to SVN. This is a typo only, the developers page includes correct SVN instructions

Nautilus-actions

Issues

Suffers from poor translation/non-standard English which makes it difficult to read documentation A. Main Page http://www.grumz.net/index.php?q=taxonomy/term/8/9

  • 1.The entire site appears to have been very poorly translated or typed. For example, “It allow to configure program to be launch on files selected into Nautilus interface.” - “...If it is not the case, first, try to simply restart Nautilus in order it loads the new Nautilus-actions extensions...” The whole site needs to be retranslated to standard English 2.The Development link “Browse the CVS repository” links to the gnome SVN. Link name needs to be updated

B. Documentation http://www.grumz.net/index.php?q=taxonomy/term/7/9

  1. The FAQ is currently for version 0.99 and has not been updated to the latest (1.4.1)

Nautilus

Issues

The default file manager for Gnome should have an updated site. Very little content A. Downloads http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/

  • 1.The latest release is 2.20.0 but the site states that it is 2.12.0

Meld

Issues

According to SVN it is still in development but no new releases or site updates

mpterm

Issues

Replaced by tabbed functionality in xterm

Moleskin

Issues

Developer has completely abandoned this project, replaced by gedit. This should be removed

Midnight Commander

Issues

A. Home Page http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/

  • 1.Still uses CVS 2.Development seems to have ceased since the code snapshot is from June

Metacity

Issues

The primary gnome window manager has no website? I Think it needs one. Currently only links to FTP repository

Memproof

Issues

Issues: Plain text only A. Home Page http://www.gnome.org/projects/memprof/

LinuxConf

Issues

Site has been moved or removed.

LibXSLT

Issues

Site suffers from hideous design flaws, I suggest a complete redesign. Essentially the same as LibXML A. Exactly the same as LibXML.

LibXML

Issues

Issues: Site suffers from hideous design flaws, I suggest a complete redesign. A. Downloads http://www.xmlsoft.org/downloads.html

  • 1.“Gnome FTP server” link is broken and points to nothing

    2.“source archive” link needs to be changed from ftp:// to http:// in order to access gnome's ftp which happens to be the only easily usable mirror. 3.The primary mirror is very unorganized, each dependency of equal version is separated by several files, making it very hard to track down all the necessary packages. 4.Both Australian mirrors suffer from this same problem as well 5.SVN should be mentioned near the top as it is gnome maintained and neatly organized

Java-Gnome

Issues

No online documentation

Gwget

Issues

A. Download http://www.gnome.org/projects/gwget/download.html

  1. Latest version on Download page (0.98.2) does not match latest available on news page (.99)

GtkMathView

Issues

Weak/Confusing layout

GTranslator

Issues

News has not been updated to latest release, but releases stopped 2 years ago

GtkPerl

Issues

A. Browse CVS http://gtk2-perl.cvs.sourceforge.net/gtk2-perl/gtk2-perl-xs/ 1.Still uses sourceforge cvs instead of gnome svn, needs updating B. FAQ http://live.gnome.org/GTK2-Perl/FrequentlyAskedQuestions 1.FAQ links to a very nice live.gnome page that is inconsistent with the rest of the site 2.Entire site should be moved to live.gnome or a local FAQ be posted

GtkHTML 2

Issues

Site has been moved or deleted

gtkmm

Issues

No news since 2005, but news is not really necessary

GTK-Doc

Issues

Poor visual design but for developers only so good enough.

Guppi

Issues

A. Download http://www.gnome.org/projects/guppi/gettingguppi.shtml

  1. The “Getting Guppi” page has either moved or been deleted, link is dead

Gossip

Issues

Very little content, but everything works

GOB

Issues

Plain text only, but since it is for developers, perhaps there is little need for style?

Gnumeric

Issues

Needs a visual refresh, but otherwise absolutely fine

GNUCash

Issues

Needs a visual refresh, but otherwise absolutely fine

Gnome VFS

Issues

Site has been moved or deleted.

Gnome Subtitles

Issues

None at all, best site-management to obscurity ratio I've ever seen :D

Gnome Scan

Issues

A. Documentation http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-scan/documentation

  1. Documentation tab is only an image of the docs that come with the software, needs updating

B. Footer

  • 1.update date needs to be fixed, it currently reads “Last upload: $Date$”

Gnome Print

Issues

Currently has no index.html but it looks to be under construction

Gnome Python

Issues

News is a little outdated

Gnome Network

Issues

Copyright expired in 2003, has since been replaced by various other software

Gnome Meeting

Issues

Should be renamed to Ekiga on the gnome projects page

Gnome Usability Project

Issues

A Home Page http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/

  1. News updates stop at October 2005

Gnome-Gcj

Issues

Is this project dead?

A. Documentation http://gnome-gcj.sourceforge.net/docs.php

  1. Almost no documentation

Gnome Db

Issues

A. Downloads http://www.gnome-db.org/Download

  1. Binary packages section has no links, suggest removal of the entire section

Gnocl

Issues

A. Navigation http://www.dr-baum.net/gnocl/#contact

  • 1.Gnocl Home links to homepage of author, very little to do with the software, suggest removal

Glade

Issues

A. Future Plans http://glade.gnome.org/todo.html

  1. Glade status and planning refers to previously released versions, suggest updating

Gfax

Issues

A. Main Page http://www.cowlug.org/gfax/

  • 1.Packages are incredibly outdated, last package was for Ubuntu Dapper. 2.Entire site is outdated by more than a year (dead?)

Getix

Issues

The link on the Gnome Project page is broken, or the website has been moved.

Gdome2

Issues

A. On the downloads page(http://gdome2.cs.unibo.it/#downloads)

B. Last update to the webpage was a long time ago..consider an update?

GConf

Issues

A. Main page (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/index.html)

  • 1.Download link is dead. Needs to be changed to http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gconf-editor/ 2.Download link suggests site has not been updated since v1.2, it is now at 2.20 3.Site has no visual style, only plain HTML. Suggest visual refresh to match gnome standards

GB

Issues

This project is dead, suggest removal.

Garnome

Issues

Front page is a little out of date on news, last modified in 2006.

Galeon

Issues

A. On the Download page(http://galeon.sourceforge.net/Main/Download)

  • 1.Ubuntu packages are out of date(or maybe not in development?) as are most of the other distros. 2.Under CVS, the entire section needs to be changed to SVN.

Dia

Issues

Issues: A. Confusion about whether the link on the Gnome Projects page should lead to http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ or http://live.gnome.org/Dia ? B. Still more confusion on transfer of site(which one is main?)

  • 1.Tutorial under Documentation works on old homepage, but has not been transferred to live homepage.

Devhelp

Issues

A. On The News page(http://developer.imendio.com/taxonomy/term/6)

  • 1.Last update was for version 0.13, but the latest version available for download is 0.16, hence news needs to be updated.

DesktopWiki

Issues

A. On the Users pages(http://www.gnome.org/projects/desktopwiki/users.shtml)

  • 1.Under source tarball, link leads nowhere. 2.No Packages are specified.

B. On The Developers page(http://www.gnome.org/projects/desktopwiki/developers.shtml)

  • 1.There is no developers page.

Gnome Devtools

Issues

A. On the news page(http://www.gnome.org/projects/devtools/index.shtml)

  • 1.The page states that the project can be found on the GNOME CVS, which is no longer in use, needs to be updated to svn.

B. On the contribute page(http://www.gnome.org/projects/devtools/contribute.shtml)

  • 1.Under CVS, the entire section should be changed to svn.

C. On the Devtools Overview page(http://www.gnome.org/projects/devtools/overview.shtml)

Bonobo

Issues

A. On the Main page(http://developer.gnome.org/arch/gnome/componentmodel/bonobo.html)

  • 1.Under availability, link points to GNOME CVS directory, which is no longer in use. 2.Site needs general updating, developer news specifically for Bonobo hasn't been updated since April of 2006.

BEAST/BSE

Issues

Not an issue, but the news hasn't been updated since December of 2006, while changes made to beast date up to October 30, 2007.(http://beast.gtk.org/log-beast)

Baobab

Issues

A. On the Home page(http://www.marzocca.net/linux/baobab.html)

  • 1.Packages are a little out of date, latest is Fedora Core 4, Debian is not specified. 2.CVS for the project should be switched to subversion. The link for the cvs still works correctly, but the instructions are for cvs, and not svn.

Anjuta

Issues

A. On the Hacking page(http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/hacking)

Agnubis

Issues

A. On The Agnubis Main page(http://www.gnome.org/projects/agnubis/index.shtml)

  1. The GNOME CVS server does not exist(http://www.es.gnome.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/agnubis/?cvsroot=GNOME)<This is most likely because the CVS was moved to the main sever>

  2. The mailing list does not exist(http://www.es.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/agnubis)

B. On The Building Agnubis page(http://www.gnome.org/projects/agnubis/building.shtml)

  1. The link leading to a downloadable version of gdome2 patched with glib2 is broken.(http://luisma.org/agnubis/deps/)

  2. The link leading to "A custom version of Gdome2 that works with gtk+2 and gnome2" .gz file is broken(http://sivut.koti.soon.fi/terop/gdome2-agnubis-fixed.tar.gz)

  3. The instructions for retrieving CVS files are faulty.

  4. The link for server instructions for the Hispano GNOME CVS server intructions does not exist.(http://www.es.gnome.org/proyectos/cvs.html)

  5. The CVS files for CVSWEB available for browswing do not exist.(http://www.es.gnome.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/agnubis/?cvsroot=GNOME)

  6. The mailing list does not exist(see issue A-2)

C. On the Screenshots page(http://www.gnome.org/projects/agnubis/screenshots.shtml)

  1. All screenshots are from 2002, and are using an outdated distro. Suggest updating?

D. On The FAQ page(http://www.gnome.org/projects/agnubis/faq.shtml)

  1. The CVS server indicated under Project Location does not exist.(see issue A-1)

2.The mailing list does not exist(see issue A-2)

ModuleMaintenanceWorkspaces/ProjectWebsiteStatus (last edited 2008-10-04 21:03:59 by MatsTaraldsvik)