I've ported the large majority of our old, crappy website to the shiny new ASF CMS. Not only is this easier to maintain b/c we no longer need Forrest, but it also has a much updated look and feel (copied from Mahout and Open for Biz) so we will no longer have that, as someone described it, Geocities circa 1999 look and feel. You can see the staging version at http://lucene.staging.apache.org/lucene/. The issue covering this is https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2748
I think we are pretty close to being able to flip the switch and make it the new Lucene/Solr/ORP/PyLucene website, but I need some help. Helping is darn near painless as it usually involves simply editing Markdown text and making a commit. If you want to run locally, that's a bit more involved, but not too hard and both Miller and I have gone through it (instructions are linked from L-2748, but do note you may need to install some perl modules -- or at least we both did and we are on Mac's). So, how can you help? 0. All of the code is at https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/cms/trunk. Check it out the usual way. 1. If you have any graphic design skills: - I'd love to have some "mantle/slide" images along the lines of http://lucene.staging.apache.org/lucene/images/mantle-lucene-solr.png. These are used in the slideshow at the top of the Lucene, Core and Solr pages and should be interesting, inviting, etc. and help spread notion of Lucene/Solr goodness - Help us coordinate the color selection on the various pages, especially in the slides 2. See the items at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2748?focusedCommentId=13080980&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13080980 and subsequent status comments. In particular eyeballs doing copy editing, filling in links, adding content are most useful. 3. Move the Core per release documentation into the Javadocs per Hoss' comment on L-2748. I'd like to switch over by the end of this week or early next week if possible. If you can help, please coordinate here on this thread so that we don't stomp on each other. -Grant
