1 [[!meta title="The SIPB Website"]]
6 * The design is equivalent to the old design, just with the design trends of the current time (alternatively, built in the 21st century, but without sufficient design clue)
7 * Too much wasted space on the left side
8 * Too much wasted space on the top
10 * Blocks of color are gratuitous and jarring
11 * Gradients are gratuitous
12 * A design that could be reused for other websites with minor color tweaking would be nice (like the Debathena stylesheet)
13 * Rectangles and straight lines make it look angular and stark
14 * The design is too generic; needs more SIPB personality, so that another website couldn't just be swapped in
15 * Consider rebranding possibilities (e.g. making fuzzball more "internal" like octocat on github, developing new logos, etc.) (publicity opportunities)
19 * git push (scripts-git, or gitosis on an XVM)
20 * commit zephyrs for git (wiki.git and ikiwiki.git)
22 * make style usable for other SIPB sites?
23 * make title == alt on images
26 * migrate sipb.mit.edu/doc
31 (this is by fawkes's understanding, it may be wrong)
33 ###When a request comes in:
34 a connection comes in for sipb.mit.edu which via a hack in MIT DNS gets directed instead to PENGUIN-LUST.MIT.EDU. If its on ports 80, (443?), or 444 it gets passed off to scripts (where its handled by b-m or b-k, whichever).
36 vhost configuration on scripts looks in ~~sipb-ww/web_scripts and checks the .htaccess file:
38 if request is for /rtfm.html,
40 if request is for /iap pass of to stuff/iap
41 (lives in /afs/athena.mit.edu/activity/s/sipb-iap/www/ of all place)
42 if request if for /cgit, or /wiki
45 pass request for foo to wiki/foo, served from there
48 ###For developments sake:
50 ####How Do I make edits?
51 If you want to just edit contents, use the web interface (edit links at bottom of page) or "git clone git+ssh://sipb-www@scripts.mit.edu/mit/sipb-www/wiki.git", make your edits in the mdwn, etc.
53 When you commit, ikiwiki should get automatically republished as HTML
56 ####Detailed Locker Layout
60 | \-- writable: directory containing files writable by scripts
61 | dotfiles such as .bash_history are symlinked here
63 | \-- amd64_fedora9_scripts: binaries related to publishing ikiwiki
64 |-- bin, lib, sbin: links into arch
65 |-- man: a link into arch, ikiwiki manpages.
66 | add sipb-www to get them into MANPATH
67 |-- share -> arch/amd64_fedora9_scripts/share
68 | |-- ikiwiki: where some basic things are pulled from during build
69 | |-- locale: i18n things we aren't using
70 | `-- man: where the manpages really live
71 |-- ikiwiki: thing of it as like a mix of etc and build
72 | |-- cgitrc : configuration for cgit
73 | |-- ikiwiki.setup: configuration for ikiwiki
74 | `-- src: where the git repo (wiki.git) is staged for building
76 | |-- cgit: where cgit was built from (not actively changed)
77 | |-- ikiwiki.git: the git repository representing the SIPB
78 | variation on ikiwiki.
79 | `-- old.ikiwiki: irrelevant
81 | |-- RCS: .htaccess mus be versioned
82 | |-- cgit: what you look at when you click on "History"
83 | |-- doc: the old Trac Wiki
84 | |-- iap -> /mit/sipb-iap/www
85 | |-- radiant: old and irrelevant
86 | |-- rtfm: contains an index.html identical to rtfm.html below
87 | |-- rtfm.html: served for rtfm.mit.edu:80
88 | `-- wiki: the published HTML that you are being served right now
89 |-- web_scripts_tmp: old directory around to keep trac up-to-date. Should
90 | vanish sooner or later
91 `-- wiki.git: this is where all the content lives as markdown. Clone this
92 if you hate web interfaces