Marketing Team Meeting Minutes #17, #18, #19

[garbas]

We were a bit silent for last month with our reports here, but meetings and work was going on as usual. For me December is the busiest time and writing minutes was last thing on my mind.

You can find video here: #17, #18 and #19.

And here is the summary what was done and discussed in last 3 meetings:

• @tomberek and @hugolgst joined the marketing team! Welcome!
• Styles was extracted out from nixos-homepage repository and was placed in GitHub - NixOS/nixos-common-styles: Common styles for NixOS related web sites.. This will enable us to there other sites (status.nixos.org, search.nixos.org, etc…) with a similar design and reuse the work that we have already did here.
• We discussed what is the policy on using other brands on nixos.org (aws, gcloud, azure, docker, caching, nixbuild, …). In short: Having the tutorials around specific brand (service) is fine and desired. It must not be written as an advertisement, but as a tutorial.
• New font was selected as promised that this would be one of the last steps after implementing the design. You can see discussion here: Experiment with different fonts by garbas · Pull Request #663 · NixOS/nixos-homepage · GitHub
• A commercial page is being updated (waiting for companies to provide information). This time around the order is going to be random. More at Commercial page rework by garbas · Pull Request #670 · NixOS/nixos-homepage · GitHub
• Blog/News section is going to be added, but we’re still working on the content. More at Blog sections of the website by garbas · Pull Request #669 · NixOS/nixos-homepage · GitHub
• Faceted/Filtered search is going to be added very very soon. You can see the preview below and you can follow progress under: Adds faceted search by garbas · Pull Request #261 · NixOS/nixos-search · GitHub

As you can see we are steadily making progress and discussing item as then come up. Let us know what you think.

[davidak]

This is some amazing progress. Well done!

[arianvp]

The Faceted search is AWESOME

I recently found this project: https://4shells.com/nixdb/search which indexes all versions of packages over all historic releases of nixpkgs. Very handy when you need to find out what pin of nixpkgs contained an obscure version you need for some compliance reason.

Was wondering if there are plans to do cross-channel search like this on nixos.org too?

[garbas]

@arianvp

Was wondering if there are plans to do cross-channel search like this on nixos.org too?

I’m not opposed to add this feature if this will not mess up the main purpose of search.nixos.org.

Main purpose of search.nixos.org is to improve discovery of different things in NixOS community. Latest packages, options is a top priority. Before expending the area we first need to champion latest available versions in nixpkgs. The user experience needs to be superb.

I don’t see me adding multiple version of nixpkgs releases anytime soon. But in one of the soon to be opened PRs the cross-channel search is going to be possible. My priority is to add a flake support and import other resources like github issues/prs, documentation.

If somebody would find the time to work on multiple version I would definitely give them all the help/guidance needed.