That would be awesome. Full disclosure - I </3 SVN but <3 git. Happy to help however I can and any experience anyone has for making that happen is welcomed. :)
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:05 AM, 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 >
