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
30 * add a grumpy fuzzball favicon to replace the ikiwiki one.
31 * feel free to make a better one if you like ~fawkes
35 (this is by fawkes's understanding, it may be wrong)
37 ###When a request comes in:
38 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).
40 vhost configuration on scripts looks in ~~sipb-ww/web_scripts and checks the .htaccess file:
42 if request is for /rtfm.html,
44 if request is for /iap pass of to stuff/iap
45 (lives in /afs/athena.mit.edu/activity/s/sipb-iap/www/ of all place)
46 if request if for /cgit, or /wiki
49 pass request for foo to wiki/foo, served from there
52 ###For developments sake:
54 ####How Do I make edits?
55 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.
57 When you commit, ikiwiki should get automatically republished as HTML
60 ####Detailed Locker Layout
64 | \-- writable: directory containing files writable by scripts
65 | dotfiles such as .bash_history are symlinked here
67 | \-- amd64_fedora9_scripts: binaries related to publishing ikiwiki
68 |-- bin, lib, sbin: links into arch
69 |-- man: a link into arch, ikiwiki manpages.
70 | add sipb-www to get them into MANPATH
71 |-- share -> arch/amd64_fedora9_scripts/share
72 | |-- ikiwiki: where some basic things are pulled from during build
73 | |-- locale: i18n things we aren't using
74 | `-- man: where the manpages really live
75 |-- ikiwiki: thing of it as like a mix of etc and build
76 | |-- cgitrc : configuration for cgit
77 | |-- ikiwiki.setup: configuration for ikiwiki
78 | `-- src: where the git repo (wiki.git) is staged for building
80 | |-- cgit: where cgit was built from (not actively changed)
81 | |-- ikiwiki.git: the git repository representing the SIPB
82 | variation on ikiwiki.
83 | `-- old.ikiwiki: irrelevant
85 | |-- RCS: .htaccess mus be versioned
86 | |-- cgit: what you look at when you click on "History"
87 | |-- doc: the old Trac Wiki
88 | |-- iap -> /mit/sipb-iap/www
89 | |-- radiant: old and irrelevant
90 | |-- rtfm: contains an index.html identical to rtfm.html below
91 | |-- rtfm.html: served for rtfm.mit.edu:80
92 | `-- wiki: the published HTML that you are being served right now
93 |-- web_scripts_tmp: old directory around to keep trac up-to-date. Should
94 | vanish sooner or later
95 `-- wiki.git: this is where all the content lives as markdown. Clone this
96 if you hate web interfaces