Yes, of course. What do you have in mind?
Alexandre Martins wrote:
Is it possible for no-commiters to contribute to the development of
the new website?
If it's possible, I'd like to become a contributor.
Peace.
On 12/20/06, * Dan North* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
wrote:
Troops,
I've been thinking long and hard about this, and I've made a
decision. The JBehave website is old and tired and dull. Even with
Shane's swanky new builder, we still end up with a static website
with not much going on.
Here's what I want from a website:
* *Easy to edit.* Textile and/or wysiwig editing, with the option
to drop into html for the tricky stuff. Ideally role-based, with
authors, publishers and administrators.
* *Low maintenance.* I want to focus on content rather than the
technology behind the site. I especially don't want to have to
keep "uploading" a new site.
* *Fast.* I don't want people waiting for it.
* *Sexy.* Easy to do stuff with CSS and funky javascript things.
* *Dynamic.* I want a project blog the team contributes to, and an
ongoing tutorials blog that shows how to use jbehave. I want
people to be able to subscribe to these via RSS. I want it to
update the world (via technorati and friends) when things change.
I want people to be able to comment on the content, and to have
strong spam controls over the comments.
* *Code-friendly.* It should use something like geshi
<http://tinyurl.com/yc6746> to syntax highlight the code.
* *Picture-friendly.* Easy to upload and link to images and
screenshots.
* *Extensible.* There are myriad plugins out there for us to use,
which is all work we don't need to do to get a sexy website. For
instance, with one mouse click I can enable a threaded forum site.
So, here's where I've got to. I've put a WordPress instance with a
customised theme at http://new.jbehave.org. It has a front page
instead of a blog, so it looks more like a real site, and the
other pages are linked in as well as being displayed on the right.
The javadocs and downloads will live on the codehaus servers as
before, and I'll put the theme under source control.
I'm very excited about this. It scratches an itch I've had for
some time. I'm especially grateful to the work Sam Newman has done
with the DBDeploy site <http://dbdeploy.com/>, and the help he
gave me in thinking along these lines.
Let me know what you think. I'm about ready to put out a 0.9
release in the next few days unless anyone has any showstoppers
you think we need to resolve, and I'm planning to launch the new
site at the same time.
Happy holidays,
Dan
ps. Of course any committers have author access (which gives you
one-click access to edit or create pages) and despots will have
admin access.
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Alexandre Martins Nunes
