Hi James, The updated website looks good to me. I agree that it will simplify work for a lot of people who are used to Jekyll.
The website is already in the SVN repository. After we have sorted out the CCLAs, the only thing that is left is a GitHub sync to make it more accessible for contributors. The prerequisite for that is that we change it to Git. Apache Infra can do that (we have done likewise for the Flink website repository and it works great). Cheers, Max On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:04 AM, James Malone <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Since we're in the process of getting bootstrapped, I wanted to improve on > our website a bit, especially since we have a new logo. > > The first site was built using Maven sites. To be honest, it presented a > bit of a problem because many of the Beam committers have used GitHub docs > to date and wanted a system which was somewhat similar. Since GH docs is > built on Jekyll (as far as I know) I figured that might actually be an > easier way to build the website anyway. > > So, I just updated the incubator website. with an exact copy of the old > site but using Jekyll + Bootstrap 3. That should hopefully make it easier > for anyone and everyone to work against (and to move existing docs.) > > The repository for the current site is here: > > https://github.com/evilsoapbox/beam-site > > I also have a tgz of the old site in case there's any concern or > disagreement. Needless to say, when we sort out the CCLAs (which should be > very soon) I'd like to get this in a project repo somewhere so we can have > better version control and review. > > Finally, the theme is basic bootstrap with a few changes (like using Roboto > as the font to match the logo.) I figure if/when there's interest in > detailed design, we can cover that as a seperate discussion. > > Cheers! > > James
