From 93ec827209f9f40a8f985607c1551369900f76ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Haas Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 17:43:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Bogus information from /about removed temporarily --- app/views/welcome/about.slim | 103 +++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) diff --git a/app/views/welcome/about.slim b/app/views/welcome/about.slim index e293fe9..5addbeb 100644 --- a/app/views/welcome/about.slim +++ b/app/views/welcome/about.slim @@ -18,29 +18,58 @@ ' Want to leave a href="mailto:email@christoph-haas.de" feedback? - p - ' The virtual server is kindly provided by - a href="http://vexxhost.com/" VEXXHOST + / p + / ' The virtual server is kindly provided by + / a href="http://vexxhost.com/" VEXXHOST a name='cookies' - h2 Hint on our usage of cookies + h2 Cookies and privacy p - ' We are using browser cookies to track your browser session. - ' The reason is that you can see your uploaded screenshots instantly - ' even before they are approved by the moderators. It also helps us - ' display messages from the moderators to you. But this web site will - ' still work well even if you have cookies disabled. - ' In any case we do not collect information about your person or what you do. - ' We don't care and we don't sell any information to anyone. + ' I am very concerned with privacy myself. So this site stores as + ' little information about your stay as possible. That is: + + ul + li + em Cookies. + ' Only when you upload a screenshot the website will send your + ' browser a cookie. That allows you to manage your own uploads + ' while the cookie is valid. You can still upload screenshots even + ' if you reject the cookie. + li + em Log files. + ' This web site is served by the nginx web server software. + ' It creates one line for every request that you make which contains + ' the current date and time, your IP address, the URL you requested, + ' the user agent (browser) identification string and the referer URL + ' (if you followed a link from another web site to get here). + ' This information is only used to improve the performance of the + ' web application by optimizing the code and fine-tuning caching. + ' It is also used to count how often + li + em Privacy + ' Under no circumstance will information about your person be + ' collected or processed. I am happy to have you here as my guest. + li + em Motivation + ' Do you wonder why this web site has been running for so many years + ' obviously costing time and money? It's one of my pet projects and + ' it is fun to develop and operate it. It was not conceived to make + ' a profit from it. h2 Which software packages are listed? p - ' The information on packages listed on this site is taken from APT repositories - ' like Debian or Ubuntu. We are just throwing out packages that are bad - ' candidates for screenshots like transitional packages, header files or debug - ' packages. The repositories that we are scanning frequently are: + ' I import the package repositories from various Linux + ' distributions once a day. However we already filter out packages that + ' we think would not be able to have a meaningful screenshot. + ' Like libraries or documentation or developer packages. So it may happen + ' that you a package is not found on this web sites although it may be + ' available in your favorite Linux distribution. Just let me know if you + ' are missing packages. + + p + ' The repositories that I am scanning frequently are: ul - @package_sources.each do |repo| @@ -98,16 +127,6 @@ ' If you would like to get a complete list of packages or screenshots in JSON ' format then contact us and we will give you the URL. - h2 Some packages are not found - - p - ' That's right. We import the package repositories from various Linux - ' distributions once a day. However we already filter out packages that - ' we think would not be able to have a meaningful screenshot. - ' Like libraries or documentation or developer packages. So it may happen - ' that you a package is not found on this web sites although it may be - ' available in your favorite Linux distribution. - h2 Uploading new screenshots p @@ -120,14 +139,14 @@ p // TODO: Use real values ' We currently have #{@package_count} packages in our database. - ' 3798 of them have screenshots. - ' That makes a total of 7.8%. + / ' 3798 of them have screenshots. + / ' That makes a total of 7.8%. ' We have #{@screenshot_count} screenshots on the server which means ' every package has an average number of #{@pkg_avg_screenshots} screenshots. - p - // TODO: Use plot about upload statistics - ' (Number of screenshots uploaded each month.) + / p + / // TODO: Use plot about upload statistics + / ' (Number of screenshots uploaded each month.) h2 Who is behind this site? @@ -135,26 +154,4 @@ ' This site has been developed and is maintained by Christoph Haas. ' It runs on a web application called debshots that was written in Ruby-on-Rails. ' debshots also uses a PostgreSQL database, the jQuery Javascript library - ' and the Zurb Foundation toolkit. Further code has been - ' contributed by Michael Vogt - programmer of Synaptic and Ubuntu's Software - ' Center. - - h2 Kudos - - p - ' It would not be possible to run this web site without these fabulous - ' open-source software components: the - a href="https://jquery.com/" jQuery Javascript library - ', the - a href="http://www.fancyapps.com/fancybox/" Fancybox plugin - ', the - a href="http://www.postgresql.org/" PostgreSQL database - ', the infamous but fabulous - a href="http://komodoide.com/komodo-edit/" Komodo Edit - ', the - a href="http://foundation.zurb.com/" Zurb Foundation responsive web framework - ' and last but definitely not least the - a href="http://rubyonrails.org/" Ruby on Rails web framework - ' . And of course thanks to - a href="http://vexxhost.com/" VEXXHOST - ' for sponsoring the server. + ' and the Zurb Foundation toolkit.