For those who attend our regular (PMC-only) video calls, they might recall I had already pitched the idea of re-doing (not redesigning!) the website many times. As a matter of fact, with a group of volunteers from the 12th meeting (Christian, Piotr, and I), we even fleshed out a draft of the structure <https://docs.google.com/document/d/10Fu7oqDzdM_D6LbexzwX9arh51Tic7AGvkWTQrL6jjQ/edit>. I find it crucial to use a tool that will enable us to realize this structure with following concerns in mind:
1. Content type setting needs to be developer-friendly and future-proof (read as *"it must be AsciiDoc"*) 2. It needs to support a multi-repository setup that we will proceed with (AsciiDoc and multi-repo? Antora <https://antora.org/>!) 3. It needs to support templating (Antora) Intersecting these constraints with available solutions in the market yields not much but Antora, hence my push for that. > preliminary sketches Obviously I would want nothing but an Antora template composed of ASF-compliant (CSS, JS, etc.) files. > dynamic content I don't see a need for that. Mind sharing for what purpose? (BTW, Antora is a static site generator.) > a nice Search feature Antora has built-in search support. > configuration validation tool I talked about this with Piotr earlier, that is a great idea. Though the PoC can simply be throwing users' configuration to xml.js <https://github.com/kripken/xml.js/> for validation against the Log4j XSD. > What JS library None preferably. On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 10:53 PM Piotr P. Karwasz <piotr.karw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Since our website has seen better times, I asked a young designer, > Daniel Żabiński, to freshen it up a little bit. > > The preliminary sketches are available at: > > > https://xd.adobe.com/view/455b5d92-d89b-45d9-984c-871974460249-1008/?fullscreen > > Personally I like the way it looks and I think we should implement it. > > This brings a lot of technical questions like: > * do we even care about Maven Site skins or should we use a different > static site generator? > * Daniel proposes a nice "Search" feature, which technology can we > use on a statically generated site? > * can we have some dynamic content backed up by Apache infrastructure? > * In the near future we'll be implementing a configuration validation > tool. I would like to use the same Javascript library for both the > tool and the rest of the website? What JS library would you propose > for interactive content. > > Piotr >
