New web site...

[Scott Penrose]

Hey Team,

I know some of you have already noticed and started to register your  
accounts - excellent... for the rest of you:

We have a new web site. This is very exciting. One of the hardest  
things for XCSoar is getting started. As such we have migrated away  
from the old site into a split site with two main areas:

* The Web site - to host the front page, basic getting started and  
information on the project
* Trac - a wiki and job tracking system (replacing Bugzilla and  
MediaWiki along with support for the new Git repository) to host all  
the more complicated and community driven pages.

All the old Bugzilla tickets and MediaWiki pages have been migrated  
across to the new site and an initial set of pages to help get started  
have been written.

So what next?

* The wiki does not yet have any of the attachments and images. The  
old site is still available at http://old.xcsoar.org/. Some of the  
pages also need their format and presentation cleaned up. There is a  
new Trac macro to allow us to add draft or old status to a page - see  
the "Trac How To" page - http://www.xcsoar.org/trac/wiki/Trac%20How 
%20to. Any help is appreciated, even if you just edit one page.

* The Terrain generation server has not yet been fully moved. It is  
about 90% working on the new site, but not enough. It is still  
accessible and linked to the old site. I will be working on it this  
week.

* You will need to generate a new login & password - sorry we just  
don't yet have a good solution to combine accounts from Sourceforge  
(bring on OpenID).

* Testing - the site needs testing and bugs should be reported using  
Trac - allocate them to the "website revamp" milestone. You can also  
consider writing or correcting the existing pages, which have been  
done in a little bit of a rush.

I hope things brings a new era to the ease of use of XCSoar. We have  
lots to do, but every step seems to be always heading in the right  
direction.

Thanks.

Scott

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