Hi folks,

since we'll be moving to our own website soonish,
let's discuss how we're going to structure it.
Erik suggested to copy over parts of the Jakarta
website such as the bylaws. I've taken a look to
identify which of the Jakarta pages may be useful
for us and do not have a corresponding page below
jakarta/httpcomponents/. I found

1. the download pages
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_httpcomponents-httpcore.cgi
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_httpcomponents-httpclient.cgi
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_commons-httpclient-3.x.cgi

2. Bylaws & Guidelines
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/management.html
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/guidelines.html
       + some referenced from guidelines.html
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/mail.html

3. Contact and Who We Are
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/contact.html
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/whoweare.html


Technically, the decision is whether we want to copy and
keep the site deployment process used at Jakarta, or whether
we want to switch to a completely mavenized site deployment.
I have no concerns about parts 2 and 3, but I can't tell
how easy or hard it is to fit part 1 into Maven. We'd also
need a place to put the .htaccess file for the site, but
I trust that can be handled by Maven.

>From a content structure point of view, that decision
translates to being HttpComponents [1] with an HttpClient 3.1
attachment [2], or being a project which has HttpComponents
and HttpClient 3.1 on the same level (and 3 look&feels).

[1] http://jakarta.apache.org/httpcomponents/index.html
[2] http://jakarta.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpclient-3.x/index.html

If it wasn't for part 1 above and my mistrust of Maven,
I'd clearly opt for the completely mavenized version.
But the Jakarta site deployment process, which transfers
generated pages to the site via SVN, somehow gives me a
better feeling than the Maven style which just copies
everything over to the server in a big bunch.


On a related matter, what paths are we going to use?
If we don't copy the Jakarta site deployment, we'll
probably collapse jakarta.a.o/httpcomponents/ to
hc.a.o/. The individual components would then still
have the full project names in the paths:
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-core/index.html
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/index.html

And what is your preferred pathname for the 3.1 site?
http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/index.html
http://hc.apache.org/commons-httpclient/index.html
...

cheers,
  Roland


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