Ok. I think I am done and we are ready to replace the site. Last night I played with fancy way to include live feeds (ASF::Value::Blogs, ASF::Value::Twitter, etc.) Unfortunately this didn't work for me. I narrowed it down to third-party XML::Atom::Feed not returning any entries and left it at that for now.
This morning I ported 2 years worth of blog posts to markdown (and even preserved the article URLs!), and simply linked to them from the home page. The whole process was very simple, and for our low rate of news, I don't mind keeping it as is. We may play with some RSS scanners in parallel without delaying the launch. For instance I would love to get a Twitter panel showing latest stuff from https://twitter.com/ApacheCayenne (a resource that is updated periodically), a commit feed, etc. Feel free to review and tweak the site at http://cayenne.staging.apache.org/ At some point next week I'd like to flip the switch on the old site and publish the new one. BTW, beside following this http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html#publishing do we need any infra help to activate publishing? Andrus On Oct 31, 2012, at 11:50 PM, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote: > Tonight I fixed legacy docs wrappers and created small per-version menus for > each piece of the docs. Also checked in a bunch of smaller things, like the > Twitter button, doc titles with version in them, etc. > > News seems to be the only thing remaining before we can go live. > > Andrus > > On Oct 31, 2012, at 10:31 AM, Aristedes Maniatis <a...@maniatis.org> wrote: > >> On 31/10/12 5:20pm, Andrus Adamchik wrote: >>> I'll take a look at porting the news. Don't think we need to port many past >>> news. >> >> Some would be nice to give the project history. >> >>>> Why can't the third template extend skeleton? >>> >>> My thinking was that we don't need left hand menu for the docs. For >>> instance looking at Docbook produced HTML I like how clean and distraction >>> free it is. Wanted to keep that across the board for docs. I would imagine >>> we'll just need a Cayenne header with a backlink to the main site, and a >>> copyright/privacy policy footer. Anyways, I'll refactor the templates to >>> maybe have a single skeleton and optional menu include. Will need to play >>> with it a bit. >> >> Sure, that makes sense. Let me know when you are done and I'll play with the >> css a bit. It is a bit ugly right now. >> >> >> Ari >> >> >> >>> Andrus >>> >>> >>> On Oct 31, 2012, at 1:27 AM, Aristedes Maniatis <a...@maniatis.org> wrote: >>>> On 31/10/12 7:24am, Andrus Adamchik wrote: >>>> >>>>> Note that second and third templates do not extend skeleton template, as >>>>> they are essentially incompatible. I just committed the changes, and here >>>>> are the rendered examples: >>>>> >>>>> http://cayenne.staging.apache.org/download.html >>>>> http://cayenne.staging.apache.org/doc30/api/index.html >>>>> http://cayenne.staging.apache.org/doc30/overview.html >>>> >>>> Why can't the third template extend skeleton? I tried to strip out the >>>> bits of the html from the Confluence export which were incompatible, >>>> leaving only (hopefully) compatible bits. Perhaps we can put back skeleton >>>> and tweak the css a little to cope? >>>> >>>> I think the next steps are just news and tying in the automated >>>> docbook/javadoc builds for trunk documentation. >>>> >>>> If we go down the Apache Blog approach for news, this is what we do: >>>> >>>> {% for e in blog.list %} >>>> <h2><a href="{{ e.url }}">{{ e.title }}</a></h2> >>>> <div class="section-content">{{ e.content|safe|truncatewords_html:355 >>>> }}</div> >>>> <hr> >>>> {% endfor %} >>>> >>>> in our path.pm file: >>>> >>>> [ qr!^/index\.mdtext$!, news_page => { >>>> blog => ASF::Value::Blogs->new(blog => "cayenne", limit=> 4), >>>> } ], >>>> >>>> >>>> Pluses: >>>> >>>> * people can add comments to the posts >>>> * we get broader publicity on the main apache site as well with no extra >>>> effort >>>> * there is probably an rss feed >>>> >>>> Minuses: >>>> >>>> * I don't know if we can carry forward historical news, so we'd need to >>>> handle that separately >>>> >>>> >>>> Andrus, would you like to give this a try since you now have a local >>>> environment? I can then style up the news items. Later on if we get really >>>> clever it seems we might be able to have a feed on the side of recent Jira >>>> comments and svn commits. That would be nice to show the activity that >>>> happens behind the scenes. >>>> >>>> >>>> Ari >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> --------------------------> >>>> Aristedes Maniatis >>>> GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> --------------------------> >> Aristedes Maniatis >> GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A >> > >
