Hi -

Make sure to study these two links. Pay attention to branding policy and 
required ASF links

https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs
https://www.apache.org/dev/project-site.html

Regards,
Dave

> On Nov 6, 2017, at 10:34 AM, Steve Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> A website is a lot more customizable so we can do things that are a
> little more visually appealing than in the wiki, which is pretty plain
> and barebones. I think helps to make the project more mature and
> reputable. And it doesn't add much extra work. After only day or so of
> playing with it, there isn't much more work needed to get things up and
> running.
> 
> It also has a nice templating feature, so you can update the template of
> multiple pages at once. So there's reduced effort for that.
> 
> Another thing that's nice is the entire website would be stored in a git
> repo, so you can support everything that git support (e.g. pull
> requests, branch, reviews, etc.) so the contributor workflow exactly the
> same.
> 
> This also doesn't mean we can't have anything point to the wiki. I'm
> sure we'll still use the wiki for things like architecture descriptions
> and things. But for stuff like downloading, high level description of
> daffodil, marketing kind of stuff, a website would be beneficial.
> 
> 
> On 11/06/2017 12:12 PM, Mike Beckerle wrote:
>> Why wouldn't we just put an automatic redirect to a home landing page on the 
>> wiki?
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Steve Lawrence <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 10:49:08 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Daffodil Website
>> 
>> I think our infrastructure move is nearing completion. I think there are
>> two remaining issues:
>> 
>> 1) Wiki migration, which I think we should slowly and methodically move
>> over to force a much needed cleanup and reorganization.
>> 
>> 2) Website. ASF provides hosting for a website at
>> http://daffodil.incubator.apache.org, but we must generate the content.
>> From the looks of other incubators, this doesn't need to be anything
>> super complicated, it more acts as a landing page for the project and
>> provides project information (e.g. github, how to contribute,
>> documentation, Apache info etc.).
>> 
>> The website must be static (so no CGI/PHP/Python/etc.). Looking at other
>> incubators, it looks like there are a handful of static website
>> generators. The most popular looks to be built by Jekyll. A template for
>> Apache incubators was created that uses Jekyll here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/apache/apache-website-template
>> 
>> It's a little old, but I've played with it a bit and it seems more than
>> sufficient. The way it works (like I think many static website
>> generators) is that templates are created and then you just create
>> Markdown files that add content to the template. So making updates to
>> content is pretty simple.
>> 
>> Some current incubators that use the above template or something very
>> similar:
>> 
>>  https://livy.incubator.apache.org/
>>  https://gossip.incubator.apache.org/
>>  https://rya.incubator.apache.org/
>>  https://toree.incubator.apache.org/
>>  https://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/
>>  https://s2graph.incubator.apache.org/download.html
>>  https://s2graph.incubator.apache.org/
>> 
>> So it seems pretty popular and flexible.
>> 
>> Unless anyone has any experience or suggestions for other static code
>> generators, I think it would be a good idea to start with that website
>> template and tweak it to meet our needs so we can get a good landing
>> page create for Daffodil.
>> 
>> - Steve
>> 
> 

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