Wow, so there are folks interested! Great discussion, and good point: projects that span projects or are working on broader community aspects need clear definitions to keep disparate volunteers focused.
There are two things *I* would be interested in helping with: 1- (Small concept) Super easy to use and maintain search widget and portal for apache.org and community.a.o sites, focused on helping newcomers find their way to the right "how do I do X" pages. Value: Make ComDev efforts more useful by ensuring new users - who might not know what terminology we use, or where our docs are traditionally stored - to find the how to information they need. In terms of structure: it feels like there might be three general kinds of people searching on a.o/c.a.o: - General information about Apache (what it is, structure, donate, etc.) - How To information, like where SVN is, how to change websites, where different email lists are, etc. - Project information: either about a specific project, or more likely "Which projects might I want to contribute to". 2- (Big concept) Creating a simple, drop-in, Apache branded search widget that we encourage projects to consider adopting on their homepages. Value: better search for individual project's users; plus showcasing some cross-project links and interest. Obviously, there are several existing setups that provide a lot of this functionality already (more than I realized). But it would be really nice to have a solution that is: -- Super easy to drop into any existing site's design. Maven/Forrest/ghpages style sites would be the obvious targets. (Do we have stats as to how many projects use each site builder tool?) -- Branded (primarily) as an Apache Lucene/Solr powered search tool. The Lucidworks site looks pretty powerful, and does cross-project stuff, but for me, the interest is providing something that is primarily powered by Apache tools (even if it uses someone's hosting or extra code, as a secondary thing). The search results/refinement pages in particular should match Apache site designs in general. The Google custom search results are kinda ugly, now that I look at them. The Lucidworks site is nice, but if we're going to feature this prominently, it would be nice to use Apache site design, with a text note "powered by LucidWorks Fusion, more details here" or the like. -- Maintenance documented. ComDev already has a lot of code this PMC owns, and since we're not focused on code daily, we need to ensure whatever maintenance is easy to do. Is that a good focus for now? - Shane -- - Shane https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/resources --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
