Sounds like a roadmap more than a focus, but otherwise good. On Mar 29, 2017 6:46 AM, "Shane Curcuru" <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote:
> 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 > >
