Ted Leung wrote: > > I'd like to bring up the topic of the website again. > > The last we discussed this (in July) people seemed to be interested in > migrating > docs / site into DocBook or simplified DocBook. Berin Loritsch had some > Cocoon2 > styles for DocBook checked into Avalon. > > Is this still what people think we should do? If so, I plan to start > converting the X2 docs to > docbook and using this as a trial run for the rest of the site. Assuming > that this is successful, > I'm willing to help this happen for all the other projects.
Yup, I'd like to see the xml.apache.org website improved. > > I'd also like to see us change the style for the website and get rid of all > the images in the nav > bars, etc. I'm willing to take a crack at it, but it *will* be ugly. If > someone more artistically > inclined wants to help, that'd be great. +1 on removing all the images. One thing I like about jakarta.apache.org is that it doesn't have all those images. I'm not necessarily advocating use of the same software though. > > Lastly, we have too many copies of the website docs. Each project has a > copy of the docs > in its own cvs, and then there's the copy in XML site -- that's one copy too > many. I'd like to > set things up so that the build for xml-site checks out the doc directories > for each project and > then builds the website. If we can do that then maybe we could even have > the website updated > semi-automatically. In order for this to happen, it would be nice if all > the projects used the same > directory hierarchy. See http://jakarta.apache.org/site/dirlayout.html for > a good starting point. > I'm going to start a second thread for the dirlayout stuff. Sounds good. -Edwin --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
