[Pydotorg-redesign] I think that the current site structure needs to be scrapped altogether.

[amk at amk.ca]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:02:36AM -0700, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
> Well, here's the problem.  The people who are willing to expend work on
> a real redesign are not the same people as those who are currently in
> charge of www.python.org.  We're left spinning our wheels because the
> people who have decision-making authority appear to think that the site
> is actually pretty good.  By almost anything other than open source
> hacker standards, it is not.

To my mind, it's completely unclear who the people who have decision-making
authority *are*, which is a fundamental problem.  This stalls small changes
as well as the larger redesign.

Anyway, there's nothing preventing anyone from grabbing portions of
python.org with wget, making an improved prototype and putting it on some
random IP address. Fred even made a (somewhat controversial) tarball a
little while ago; that could be repeated.  So, make a prototype!

> solid commitment to working on it.  Investing time in small cosmetic
> changes directly undercuts that effort.

This is not a zero-sum game.  My investing time in the existing site doesn't
take time away from those people who are willing to work on a major
redesign.  

--amk