Status of Project Websites
Description
- This page contains an overall view of the Gnome modules' websites, and the state they are in.
It is based on a document made by ''rabid9797'' and ''element3260'' in GHOP. Updated and modified for live.gnome.org by MatsTaraldsvik
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Dead - This project is abandoned and/or is obsolete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Yes ( Obsolete ) - Project is obsolete.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
Project
Status
Last Update
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Aug, 2007
Excellent
Aug, 2007
Excellent
Aug, 2007
Excellent
Oct, 2007
Excellent
Sept, 2007
Excellent
Nov, 2007
Excellent
Nov, 2007
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Nov, 2007
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Oct, 2007
Excellent
Nov, 2007
Excellent
Nov, 2007
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Oct, 2007
Excellent
Nov, 2007
Excellent
Dec, 2007
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Dec, 2007
Excellent
Sept, 2007
Good
Sep, 2007
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Jun, 2007
Excellent
Recent
Excellent
Jul, 2007
Excellent
Dec, 2007
Excellent
Nov, 2007
Excellent
Dec, 2007
Excellent
Oct, 2007
Urgent Issues
Project
Status
Last Update
Issues
Poor
Unknown
Yes (Urgent)
Good
Dec, 2007
Yes (Urgent)
Dead
Unknown
Yes (Urgent)
Poor
Unknown
Yes (Urgent)
Dead
Unknown
Yes (Urgent)
Poor
Unknown
Yes (Urgent)
Issues
Project
Status
Last Update
Issues
Poor
2002
Yes
Good
Nov, 2007
Yes
Good
Unknown
Yes
Excellent
Oct, 2007
Yes
Fair
Oct, 2007
Yes
Fair
Unknown
Yes
Poor
Unknown
Yes
Good
Oct, 2007
Yes
Fair
Mar, 2007
Yes
Fair
Sep, 2006
Yes
Excellent
Nov, 2007
Yes
Fair
Unknown
Yes
Good
2003
Yes
Good
Dec, 2007
Yes
Excellent
Oct, 2007
Yes
Good
Jan, 2006
Yes
Excellent
Nov, 2007
Yes
Good
Unknown
Yes
Excellent
Dec, 2007
Yes
Good
Dec, 2007
Yes
Good
Dec, 2007
Yes
Good
Nov, 2007
Yes
Good
Unknown
Yes
Excellent
Mar, 2007
Yes
Good
Sept, 2007
Yes
Excellent
Mar, 2005
Yes
Fair
Mar, 2007
Yes
Good
Oct, 2007
Yes
Fair
May, 2007
Yes
Excellent
Nov, 2007
Yes
Poor
Aug, 2007
Yes
Poor
Aug, 2007
Yes
Poor
Aug, 2006
Yes
Fair
Jul, 2005
Yes
Good
Jul, 2006
Yes
Good
May, 2007
Yes
Fair
Aug, 2005
Yes
Excellent
Recent
Yes
Good
Jul, 2007
Yes
Poor
Sep, 2003
Yes
Excellent
Recent
Yes
Good
Aug, 2007
Yes
Good
Nov, 2007
Yes
Good
Oct, 2007
Yes
Fair
Aug, 2007
Yes
Fair
Unknown
Yes
#Pspell(New name is Aspell)
Good
Nov, 2007
Yes
Good
Nov, 2007
Yes
Poor
Unknown
Yes
Poor
Mar, 2005
Yes
Excellent
Nov, 2007
Yes
Fair
Unknown
Yes
Good
Dec, 2007
Yes
Dead / Obsolete
Project
Status
Last Update
Issues
Poor
Dec, 2006
Yes (Obsolete)
Fair
Unknown
Yes (Obsolete)
Dead
Nov, 2003
Yes (Obsolete)
Dead
Unknown
Yes (Obsolete)
Dead
Feb, 2005
Yes (Obsolete)
Dead
Mar, 2002
Yes (Obsolete)
Dead
Aug, 2001
Yes (Obsolete)
Dead
2003
Yes (Obsolete)
Dead
Sep, 2003
Yes (Obsolete)
Dead
Jan, 2002
Yes (Obsolete)
Dead
Mar, 2006
Yes (Obsolete)
Dead
Unknown
Yes
Dead
Jun, 2004
Yes
Dead
Unknown
Yes
Dead
Unknown
Yes
Dead
May, 2004
Yes
Dead
Oct, 2001
Yes
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
A new website for Rhythmbox is being redesigned, and will address the issues. Check Rhythmbox/NewSiteDesign MatsTaraldsvik
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
- 1.No Navigation
2.No Download links, although it is available at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/planner/ 3.No documentation or screenshots
Pkgconfig
Issues
Very simple site for a very simple program A. Main Page http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/wiki/FrontPage
Bazaar repository (http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/bzr/) is empty.
PiTiVi
Issues
Wiki only. A. Main Page http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page
- “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
- 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/
1.The page has been moved to http://www.gnome.org/projects/memprof/ yet the gnome projects page still links to http://people.redhat.com/otaylor/memprof/ 2.Single page site with no navigation at all 3.No documentation 4.More than a year outdated
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
- 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
- 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 
Gnome Scan
Issues
A. Documentation http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnome-scan/documentation
- 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/
- News updates stop at October 2005
Gnome-Gcj
Issues
Is this project dead?
A. Documentation http://gnome-gcj.sourceforge.net/docs.php
- Almost no documentation
Gnome Db
Issues
A. Downloads http://www.gnome-db.org/Download
- 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
- 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)
- 1.The CVS links need to be changed to SVN links.
2.The Gnome CVS base link no longer exists(http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gdome2/)
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)
1.A link pointing to a diagram no longer exists(http://www.gnome.org/~campd/devtools-overview.dia)
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)
1.Under Resources, the CVS snapshots link either no longer exists(moved elsewhere?) or is broken.(http://www.anjuta.org/cvs/)
Under Messages and Translations, the GNOME Style Guide link does not exist(http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/)
Agnubis
Issues
A. On The Agnubis Main page(http://www.gnome.org/projects/agnubis/index.shtml)
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>
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)
The link leading to a downloadable version of gdome2 patched with glib2 is broken.(http://luisma.org/agnubis/deps/)
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)
- The instructions for retrieving CVS files are faulty.
The link for server instructions for the Hispano GNOME CVS server intructions does not exist.(http://www.es.gnome.org/proyectos/cvs.html)
The CVS files for CVSWEB available for browswing do not exist.(http://www.es.gnome.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/agnubis/?cvsroot=GNOME)
- The mailing list does not exist(see issue A-2)
C. On the Screenshots page(http://www.gnome.org/projects/agnubis/screenshots.shtml)
- 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)
- 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)