These are projects that require a bit (or more!) of technical knowledge. If you think you could help with one of these projects, please contact us. This list is subject to constant change.
If you have an idea for improving how Nausicaa.net works, please let us know. We want to make this site easy to use, and as comprehensive as possible. We are always open to serious suggestions.
Please choose from the following:
Project Category | Priority/ Status |
Project Description | Team Ghiblink Member(s) Assigned |
Create Mirror file | normal | Create a zipped mirror file so people can easily download the entire site (not including the file-archives). | unassigned |
HTML-ize file archives | normal PCD:none |
Make an HTML version of the file archives to facilitate easier searching. Joe has a cgi script that could prove useful for this. | unassigned |
Hypermail-related, advanced | normal PCD:none |
Fix the broken "hypermail 1.02" link | Rachel, Michael(?) |
normal PCD:none |
Instead of monthly listing, make it 6-monthly (or any long period) listing, or even make it infinite-monthly listing. This is to avoid going through an intermediate page. | Rachel, Michael(?) | |
normal PCD:none |
Disable listing the "to" field in each message | Rachel, Michael(?) | |
normal PCD:none |
Optionally disable listing the "from" field (ie all posts are from one author, Team Ghiblink) | Rachel, Michael | |
normal PCD:none |
Modify the look/layout of the pages, like adding our standard header and footer, use a blue background with white text, etc. | Rachel, Michael | |
Listar-related, tricky: | normal PCD:none |
Similar to the automatically added [kiki] tags, consider adding a date tag, so that the subject line looks like: (0506)[kiki] Kiki in Berkeley (or whatever order the date tag appears); this is so that people can spot a newly-added item more easily in the subject-line listing page |
Rachel, Michael(?) |
On-the-fly page generation | normal PCD:none |
Conversion of the site from a collection of hand-coded pages to a set of database-generated pages which become easier to search and more perfectly uniform in appearance; hopefully the conversion will not mean that the site becomes more difficult to update. | unassigned |
working... | working... | working... | working... |
Hypermail-related, advanced | working... PCD:none |
Consider alternate software other than hypermail, like MHonArc, a Perl5-based mailbox-to-html converter. See also John Goerzen's example. | Rachel |
COMPLETED | COMPLETED | COMPLETED | COMPLETED |
File/directory-related | COMPLETED 1999.05.25 00:50 PST |
Move ./mail-archive/* to ./news/*, ie ./news/kiki.html, ./news/other.html (or misc.html), and ./news/all.html | Michael |
COMPLETED 1999.05.25 00:50 PST |
Update the content of the current ./news/index.html (Basically done) | Michael | |
Hypermail-related, basic | done 1999.05.25 00:57 PST |
Rename the header of each archive page from "Unofficial... archives" to "News about Kiki's Delivery Service", "News about (show name)", "Miscellaneous News", and "News, full listing" (suggestions for better headers?) | Michael |
Listar-related, trivial | COMPLETED 1999.05.25 01:45 PST ---- see "Edit current..." |
Remove the word "announce" in the "[ ]" subject tag, ie a simple "[kiki]" should be good enough | Rachel |
COMPELTED 1999.05.25 01:45 PST ---- see "Edit current..." |
Disable the automatic [Ghibli] tag in the collect-all group, so that each subject in that group only has one tag like "[kiki]", "[mh]" or "[other]" inherited from the corresponding kiki/mh/other groups, instead of the two tags we have right now | Michael | |
Web-based Search Engine | COMPLETED | Implement a web-based search engine visitors Nausicaa.net can search the site with. There's a prototype at /cgi-bin/msearch.cgi, but it only works for IE 3.02 so far. (-Michael) I should reinstall GLIMPSE. (-Rachel) Implement GLIMPSE. Joe installed a new search engine that works really well. |
Joe |
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