My tentative plan is the following:
1. Get a brand new shiny logo!
2. Get a brand new design
- for the landing page (HTML, CSS, and images)
- for internal pages directly accessed by the landing page (HTML, CSS)
- for AsciiDoc-generated reference manual theme (CSS)
3. Migrate all reference manual to AsciiDoc – we are almost there
4. Update AsciiDoc theme
5. Restructure existing manual sections and content (this is big!)
6. Create a landing website for Log4j using new designs and JBake, which
we already use
7. Make reference manual accessible in two flavors:
1. /doc/reference/latest/index.html
2. /doc/reference/<release>/index.html
As you might guess, only the first two tasks will be done by the hired
professional. The rest is still on our shoulders.
Note that the reference manual will still be built from the sources via
asciidoc-maven-plugin. Same applies to the landing page generation via
JBake. Hence I will only touch the content, not the mechanics.
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 1:14 AM Ralph Goers <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Well, I would love to know what you have in mind before we make a lot of
> changes. Using Maven to build the web site isn’t particularly fun but it
> does build a lot of the web site with very little effort.
>
> Ralph
>
>
>
> > On Mar 9, 2021, at 4:49 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Mar 9, 2021, at 2:35 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Also a while back we had a logo contest and from then on changed the
> >> logo with every release. All the logos might be in git somewhere...
> >
> > I believe I have all the previous logos and you probably do too. Look in
> src/site/resources/logo. They are all pretty much the same except for
> using different color schemes. All I did for each release was pick one and
> add the release number to it.
> >
> > You can look at all the previous versions of the web site. For example
> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/log4j-2.6/index.html and
> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/log4j-2.8.1/index.html.
> >
> >
> > Ralph
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Gary
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 4:34 PM Gary Gregory <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The ASF has graphics people that Apache-fy logos and such, I think you
> >>> just need to email the marketing list.
> >>>
> >>> Gary
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 4:18 PM Volkan Yazıcı <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I have been tinkering for a while chipping in €500 from my pocket to
> revamp
> >>>> Log4j logo and website. I personally think it will be really sad to
> >>>> announce Log4j 3 to the public with the current visuals. Log4j is by
> far
> >>>> the best Java logging framework out there in the wild – no, I am not
> biased
> >>>> at all ;P – though our website is far from reflecting that. Before
> asking
> >>>> for some cash from you people, I was wondering if ASF can help us out
> here;
> >>>> contribute financially, provide a designer, etc. Do you have any
> ideas?
> >>>>
> >>>> And... What do you think about the idea?
> >>>>
> >>>> P.S. I am very well aware that such an update to the website is going
> to
> >>>> necessitate quite some rewrite of the documentation. Yeah... But we
> need to
> >>>> start from somewhere.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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