DeveloperWiki:ArchlinuxOrg Services
This is a list of basic sites and services we provide at archlinux.org, their status, and any outstanding concerns people have had with them.
Current Services
- Main Site
- Provides: News, Repo Listings, Out of date reporting, developer wiki, developer information, donation information, documentation
- Audience: everyone
- Status: operational
- Issues: none, documentation has few contributors and falls out of date easily
- Forums
- Provides: place to discuss anything arch related, and even non-arch related, general announcements
- Audience: starting point for newer users, few older users, some non-users. Most people seem to start here and gravitate away over time.
- Status: operational
- Issues: none
- Wiki
- Provides: user-based documentation, tutorials, etc
- Audience: newer users, many older users
- Status: operational
- Issues: none
- Bug Tracker
- Provides: place to report distro-centric problems directly to developers
- Audience: everyone
- Status: operational
- Issues: none
- AUR
- Provides: Central repository for user-contributed PKGBUILDs, managment for community repo
- Audience: TUs and more experienced users who are able to create and maintain pkgbuilds.
- Status: operational, with many known issues, slow development
- Issues: Codebase is messy and hard to work with. Slow development but rapid growth of userbase. Klunky interface.
- Mailing Lists
- Provide: Place to discuss everything arch-related, including the distro, development, pacman, aur, and porting. Generally very on-topic.
- Audience: Users who wish to discuss those particular topics. Usually slightly more experienced users and those inclined to use email.
- Status: operational
- Issues: none
- IRC channels
- Provide: Live dicussion about arch, arch development, and localized dicussion. Often other topics as well.
- Audience: Full range of users, often those who are IRC-inclined.
- Status: operational
- Issues: none
- Planet Arch
- Provides: aggregation of arch-related blogs and feeds
- Audience: unsure
- Status: operational
- Issues: poor visibility, tracks very old entries leading to large page size
- Package Repositories
- Provides: Basic and expanded package sets for the distro. FTP for little-used direct access. Rsync for mirroring access.
- Audience: all users
- Status: operational
- Issues: bandwidth is a limiting factor when large upgrades occur, leads to mirror sync issues
- Revision Control - CVS, SVN, GIT
- Provides: Tracking for PKGBUILDs, arch site, scripts and related projects
- Audience: developers, advanced users
- Status: operational
- Issues: CVS migration needs to be finished.
- Newsletter/Magazine
- Provides: Concise aggreggation of arch related activity over small timespans.
- Audience: everyone
- Status: monthly releases
- Issues: none
Removed Services
- Development Blog
- Provided: place to post arch development related items that are not quite front page newsworthy. Place for some community projects to post updates
- Status: Removed
- Issues: poor visibility, and little use
- Replaced by: Forum announcement section, which has been integrated into the planet feeds.
- Arch Artwork Gallery
- Provided: place for users to post screenshots and arch-related images
- Status: Removed
- Issues: poor visibility, little use
- Replaced by: Nothing. The users historically used the forum for screenshot threads, and free image hosting sites. This trend continues.
- Pastebin
- Provides: Place to share snippets of text
- Audience: mostly IRC users, but pretty much anyone
- Status: Removed
- Issues: Spam issues. It was little used.