On Jan 31, 2012, at 7:34 PM, Jan Høydahl wrote:

> +1, looks much more inviting for everyone! Great work.
> 
> Minors:
> * Enlarge the search box so the full text "Search with Apache Solr..." is 
> visible. Hey, it's the home page of the world's best search engine, search 
> should be prominent - so why not make the search box muuuch wider and add 
> AutoComplete.

See below :-)  Have at it.  Most of the search site stuff is in the templates 
directory.

> * Why is the search automatically constrained to the "Lucene-Core" project, 
> even when searching from /solr/? If I am at Solr home page and search 
> "tutorial", the first hit should be the Solr tutorial, not the Lucene one.

That's probably a copy paste error or a templating error.

> 
> --
> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect
> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com
> Solr Training - www.solrtraining.com
> 
> On 31. jan. 2012, at 20:38, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
> 
>> As many of you know, I've been doing a slow burn on switching us over to the 
>> new ASF CMS.  I'm finally at a point where I think we are ready, for the 
>> most part, so I'd like to propose we make the leap and switch.  I finally 
>> had time to figure out a workaround for INFRA-3850 and have released the 
>> logjam caused by that blocker in terms of the L&F of the site.
>> 
>> You can see the new site at http://lucene.staging.apache.org/.  I've ported 
>> almost all of the existing sites and done a lot to make it look better in 
>> terms of getting the CSS right, etc.
>> 
>> The new site is almost dead simple to edit:  
>> 
>> 1. svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/cms/trunk cms/trunk
>> 2. svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/build if you wish 
>> to build and test locally
>>      a. http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html#local-build for details on 
>> building locally.  If you are on a mac, you may need some perl dependencies 
>> installed.
>>      b. cd asf-cms
>>      c. ./build_site.pl --target-base=<path to output on local HTTPd server, 
>> I use ~/Sites> --source=../trunk/
>> 3.  Edit the files in cms/trunk/content and cms/trunk/templates as you see 
>> fit.  When you are satisfied, svn commit.
>> 4. Browse to the staging site to see them live.
>> 5. TBD: publish to the main site.  I'll figure that out when switching and 
>> post.
>> 
>> Markdown Reference: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
>> CMS Reference:  http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html and 
>> http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html
>> 
>> (This info is available on the site at: 
>> http://lucene.staging.apache.org/site-instructions.html)
>> 
>> The whole process is 1000x easier than Forrest.  You can even edit via the 
>> web using a WYSWIG editor if you so desire.
>> 
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*********************
>> Now, here's the kicker, I'd like to switch to the new sites over this 
>> weekend or early next week at the latest and then iterate from there.  I 
>> don't have a solution for the Core versioned docs yet, but those can be 
>> figured out later.  Presumably we can convert them to markdown at some point 
>> before the next release and just maintain pointers to the old versions.
>> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*********************
>> 
>> So, I'd suggest everyone give it a pass through, fix items as they see them 
>> and/or otherwise pitch in and help, because I'm tired of our current site 
>> and how poor it makes us look.  
>> 
>> -Grant
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 

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http://www.lucidimagination.com



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