+ 1. Also, the website repo need not wait for the software grants. It might be a good idea to get the website into its final destination so every one test their commit bits are working.
Suresh > On Feb 24, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Maximilian Michels <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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
