> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 05 December 2001 11:51 am
> To: Apache Cocoon
> Cc: Ted Leung
> Subject: [Vote] Improving Cocoon Site
>
>
> We have released Cocoon and this is a great thing.
>
> Now we have to improve the web site a little bit.
>
> 1) location of Cocoon 1.x documentation:
>
> I propose to move
>
> http://xml.apache.org/cocoon1
>
> into
>
> http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/old/
>
> which I believe it's better because the URI is version-free and
> future-compatible: this means this location identified "the previous
> generation of Cocoon, now considered obsolete, but still used by many".
+0
> 2) graphic look:
>
> I propose to update the site skin using the new xml.apache.org look
> proposed over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ted, what's the status of this?
> where can we find the stylesheets you came up with?
>
> This mainly because the site is simply too heavy: it's ok to show off
> the power of generating raster images out of SVG files, but this is
> clearly too much.
+1 Definately want this.
> 3) Clean up documentation: there is a lot to do, but here are things
> that bug me:
>
> a) there is no visual difference between sections (i.e. User) and pages
> (Who We Are).
>
> b) there is very little meaning associated with the sections (how in
> hell are readers supposed to know what CTWIG is?)
>
> c) we should have a "community" section.
>
> 4) enhance site functionality:
>
> a) searching: we must come up with a way to search content, even
> forwarding to Google is better than nothing.
>
> b) community information:
>
> - graphs of people subscribed on the mail lists
> - graphs of messages on the mail lists
> - graphs of downloads
>
> I see much more valuable to use the SVG rasterizer for such graphs
> rather than "waste" it to generate the sitebar text. In order to do
> this, though, we need to gather this information.
When you've got the data theres a couple of xslt's which generate bar,
column, line and pie charts in the Batik source. I donated them _ages_ ago
after playing with Cocoon2 for the first time with svg. They have some
errors (I was wanting to start a project at work to improve them - but it's
not happened yet) but I'm sure the Batik team would appreciate them being
improved. Even if we don't use them, they might give us a start...
> My idea is to have a perl script (or equivalent) run every week that
> comes up with this information and places it on a specific location
> (this should be done for every xml.apache project).
>
> Unfortunately, the mail list subscription information is reserved by
> root, so we need a high level of access in order to do this (Sam, do you
> have that kind of access level?). The compressed MBOX files can be found
> over at:
>
> /www/xml.apache.org/mail/cocoon-(users|dev)
>
> while the web site logs are in
>
> /x2/logarchive/www/2001
>
> The ideal solution would be to have this processed information already
> XML-ized, but it's probably easier to "append" a line than to add an
> element to an XML file. We could use CSV and do the XML-ization at
> Generation level.
>
> Something like this would be great:
>
> cocoon.list.cocoon-dev:
> cocoon.list.cocoon-users:
>
> year,week,subscribers,messages
> 2001,01,348,983
> 2001,02,358,839
> 2001,03,334,1093
> 2001,03,343,1293
> ...
>
> which could XML-ized as
>
> <list>
> <item year="2001" week="01" subscribers="348" messages="983"/>
> <item year="2001" week="02" subscribers="358" messages="839"/>
> ...
> </list>
>
> or
>
> <list>
> <item>
> <year>2001</year>
> <week>01</week>
> <subscribers>348</subscribers>
> <messages>983</messages>
> </item>
> ...
> </list>
>
> which is more verbose, but could be easier to create using SAX events
> and easier to process with XSLT stylesheets (why attributes are so
> neglected in the XML world? bah, I love them so much)
>
> Then we could easily transform this into SVG with an XSLT stylesheet and
> have the raster graph generated automatically without human
> intervention. Again, note that XML-ization of the CSV file can be done
> by a CSVGenerator which is piece of cake to write (I volunteer to do it
> if this is accepted)
>
> Also,
>
> cocoon.downloads
>
> year,week,downloads
> 2001,01,294
> 2001,02,384
>
> I'm not very good at UNIX administration, so I'd be more than happy if
> somebody else provides the scripts and installs them on apache.org :)
>
> Ok, enough for now.
>
> Please, place your votes or indicate your
> comments/suggestions/criticism.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be
> able to give birth to a dancing star.
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche
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