Wow, Grant, that looks awesome, great job on the new site! Cheers, Chris
On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Grant Ingersoll wrote: > 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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
