Am 16.01.2012 16:40, schrieb Christian Grobmeier:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Benedikt Ritter
<b...@systemoutprintln.de> wrote:
Am 16.01.2012 16:16, schrieb sebb:
On 16 January 2012 15:02, Christian Grobmeier<grobme...@gmail.com> wrote:
Actually Simone has already brought up a bootstrap'ped variant of the
Commons homepage I liked very much. Not sure what was the problem with
that.
The major problem was that it did not meet the branding requirements.
I have created a jira issue:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMMONSSITE-65
What do you think about my idea of providing a road map for every project?
Basically yes, but I am afraid that some components do not have a road
map because they are not maintained to well (like Jelly for example or
logging). I guess only a few components have enough steam to work
after a roadmap (like math maybe)
Okay, I get that. But I think every project should at least be able to
determine, when the next release is scheduled. As I described with
Collections, there are major changes coming up, and it would be nice to
know, when we can expect those to be released.
Maybe every project has to consider for themselves, if they can maintain
a road map. So as for collections, I should maybe propose that on their
submailinglist.
I must say, that it is a bit scary, that most project do not have at
least an internal road map...
Best regards
We should put it on our table again, as the current Commons site
looks like we are jdk 1.3 users (ok, we support 1.3 on some places,
but this does not mean we should be proud of that ;-))
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Benedikt Ritter
<b...@systemoutprintln.de> wrote:
Hi,
looking at the different commons project pages, it occurs to me, that
all
pages use a slightly different layout. For example comparing Lang,
BeanUtils
and Collections with one another the first thing are the page titles:
- Home
- BeanUtils - Commons
- Collections - Home
If I were to rate this titles, I would say that "BeanUtils - Commons" is
the
best one, followed by "Collections - Home". "Home" from Lang's project
page
is clearly the worst page title I can think of.
Looking at the content area, there is not much to complain about. All
three
content areas are structured nearly the same way (although IMHO
BeanUtils
content area is a bit overloaded with release informations).
When it comes to the sidebar, things get completely inconsistent.
First of all: Why doesn't Lang's homepage has a link so ApacheCon?
Why does BeanUtils have a Documentation are and a Project Documentation
area?
Where do I get all the informations about developing BeanUtils from (as
Lang
and Collections have a distinct development area)?
Why does Lang's ASF area have more links than the ones of the others?
Why do the release history pages of all three projects look so
completely
different?
In addition to that, I think that one thing is really missing on all of
the
three above mentioned pages: There is no road map for future releases!
How
can I know if I should wait for the next Collections release, that
provides
generics or better start my new project using the latest release? Maybe
it
will be out next week, maybe I have to wait one year. I don't know...
There
really has to be a road map, so that the users know when they can expect
the
next release and what they can expect from it.
I guess, I have made my point clear, and I bet that looking at other
commons
project pages would result in finding even more layout variants.
I don't want to study the page layout all over again, when I browse
through
the different project pages. I want everything to be at the same place
(as
far as possible). So I propose to unify all page layouts. This post is
not
supposed to present the perfect layout, but rather be a discussion
starter
on how such a layout could look like (if you guys think that a unified
layout is needed at all...).
Regards
Benedikt
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