What I have in mind....well I agee with your ideas, specially the point of a low maintenance website, in terms of technology, focusing on contents, without the need to uploading the website, code-friendly, fancy design and so on...I'd like to know how could I help? Are you thinking in trace a plan for a demo?
On 12/20/06, Dan North <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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]> 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. > > -- ______________________ Alexandre Martins Nunes
-- ______________________ Alexandre Martins Nunes
