Lewis, you are the man =) So once the INFRA ticket is settled we could update the site via the CMS site https://cms.apache.org ?
- Henry On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > *WHATS GOING ON?* > Just an update on whats going on here. > Following as much of the CMS documentation as possible, which is pretty > thorough, I've managed to get us to a stage where the entire Gora site > documentation is represented in Markdown now and available in SVN. > The source for the new site can be found here [0]. > The old site has been retained here [1]. > We currently are still with the old site until the ticket INFRA-6009 [2] is > addressed. Only then will the new site be live. > > *WHATS NEXT* > I've modelled our site on the bval site[3] as it is clean and responsive. > The idea is to keep it as simple as possible and make it as easy as > possible to make it easy to contribute documentation to Gora. > I also want to make sure that our site drives people to Gora, so in time we > can get a twitter stream, LinkedIn feed, etc. embedded within the new site. > We also need to make it easier for people to download Gora, so this is the > main objective of the new site. > > I want to make it crystal clear that I am not a website developer. I picked > up twitter bootstrap as the overhead is less for me to overcome given the > workload I have elsewhere. > I hope you guys will help me to help us make the site work for the Gora > community. I can assure there will be lots of cock ups in my code, so I > would really appreciate feedback once we get it up and running. > Also, it would be awesome if any presentation savvy pros amongst us could > help iron out a specific design for the site once we see its limitations. > > The site is just another tool and method we can and should use to grow > Gora, so I am looking forward to making the most of the opportunity this > will provide us with. > > Thanks > > Lewis > > [0] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/gora/site/ > [1] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/gora/oldsite/ > [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6009 > [3] http://bval.apache.org/index.html > > -- > *Lewis* >
