This looks great, Michael. It's also a great proof-of-concept, nice work. I like the look of it, but I don't think we want to completely copy the Metron site, so we will need to change it up.
I'm working on getting the exported HTML from the ActiveMQ Confluence space and I will dump it into a new git repo. Bruce On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Michael André Pearce < [email protected]> wrote: > Agree on jekyll. > > Here’s a sample I’ve mocked up with an activemq look and feel (and much > lighter) based around the new logo > > https://github.com/michaelandrepearce/activemq-site/tree/master/site > > I forked from metrons to get most of the bits like Jekyll etc which is > already working. > > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 7 Dec 2017, at 16:49, Bruce Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I would prefer to use Markdown with the Jekyll framework ( > > https://jekyllrb.com/). Jekyll handles Markdown, it handles CSS (via > SASS) > > and it would allow the site to live in a git repo. > > > > Also, I found that other projects use Jekyll with great success, here is > > just one example in the Flink project: > > > > https://flink.apache.org/ > > > > Nice looking site, clearly more modern and fully customizable. > > > > Bruce > > > > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Clebert Suconic < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> +1 > >> > >> I like the Markdown (or whatever easy format.. non xml based). We will > >> need to choose a framework for that. do you have anything in mind? > >> > >> I also think we should have a consistent look and feel. > >> > >> > >> I will be supportive on this... > >> > >> > >> First thing will be to have a framework chosen.. > >> Second to have a github we collaborate... > >> Third.. maybe we could use one of those video calls to talk about how to > >> do it. > >> > >> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Bruce Snyder <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> Several opinions have been expressed recently that the ActiveMQ website > >>> needs some attention and that Artemis should be made more prominent. > I'd > >>> like to discuss some ideas to see what we could achieve on this topic. > >>> > >>> If we are going to make Artemis more prominent, the first concern I > >>> identified is that the ActiveMQ website and the Artemis website are > >>> authored differently. The ActiveMQ website is authored in the > Confluence > >>> wiki and exported to HTML automagically whereas the Artemis website is > >>> authored in raw HTML. As a result, the two sites have a very different > >> look > >>> and feel to them. This presents some challenges to using the content > >>> between the two. > >>> > >>> But this presents other questions -- do we want the two sites to look > >>> similar or different? When someone looks at Artemis content, do we want > >> the > >>> user to immediately know that they are looking at ActiveMQ content vs. > >>> Artemis based content solely due to the look and feel of the site? > Should > >>> there even be two different sites? > >>> > >>> I would prefer to have the site authored in a language that is easier > to > >>> write than HTML (such as Markdown). I would also like the files > >> comprising > >>> the site to live in a git repo. To give the site a modern look and feel > >>> means using CSS (e.g., SASS, etc.). All these things can be achieved > >> using > >>> Jekyll, but first we would need to convert the raw HTML files to > Mardown > >> to > >>> put in git. I have experimented with some tools to convert HTML to > >> Markdown > >>> and they are less than ideal. Does anyone have any experience with > this? > >>> > >>> Sorry for the rambling. Anyone else interested to help tackle this > thorny > >>> set of issues? > >>> > >>> Bruce > >>> > >>> -- > >>> perl -e 'print > >>> unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" > );' > >>> > >>> ActiveMQ in Action: http://bit.ly/2je6cQ > >>> Blog: http://bsnyder.org/ <http://bruceblog.org/> > >>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/brucesnyder > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Clebert Suconic > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > perl -e 'print > > unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" );' > > > > ActiveMQ in Action: http://bit.ly/2je6cQ > > Blog: http://bsnyder.org/ <http://bruceblog.org/> > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/brucesnyder > -- perl -e 'print unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" );' ActiveMQ in Action: http://bit.ly/2je6cQ Blog: http://bsnyder.org/ <http://bruceblog.org/> Twitter: http://twitter.com/brucesnyder
