Hi Dan, All arguments are good, except I think some part of the website should be in the same version control of the source. One thing that I love about Apache ANT is that I can just download the document for a certain version and read them offline.
If you want dynamite website like conversation, then BuildMaster is not the answer. It does handle file upload, syntax highlighting, css, JavaScript, though. Cheers Shane 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 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, 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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