ftp mirrors do not work in chrome. what should we do?

[haraldschilly]

This is an answer to https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/28441

Is your browser a newer Chrome? It stopped supporting the ftp protocol. Try it in Firefox...

The questions are

• should remove a working mirror because a leading browser doesn't support the protocol?
• tweak the download page, e.g. to not show a link but just some text?
• try to contact someone over there to serve all those pages via http?

other ideas?

[szhorvat]

Is your browser a newer Chrome?

Yes.

It stopped supporting the ftp protocol.

It looks like it.

Try it in Firefox...

It works with Firefox. It's a bit strange to serve HTML pages through FTP though ...

[AbhishekTiwari23]

@haraldschilly, sir, there are several open issues about the website; I want to contribute to the frontend and backend part of the website with my experience with NEXTJS. I would like to know about the website's tech and if I can contribute.

[haraldschilly]

@haraldschilly, sir, there are several open issues about the website; I want to contribute to the frontend and backend part of the website with my experience with NEXTJS. I would like to know about the website's tech and if I can contribute.

The readme, in particular https://github.com/sagemath/website#development should help. "Tech stack" is jinja2.

[haraldschilly]

... and if I can contribute.

Let me elaborate. There are certainly small details that are off, but the website serves its purpose and that's fine. If you really want to help, you could add all the missing references to the publications list: https://github.com/sagemath/publications/issues

Another always open area is improving the documentation of sagemath itself.