+1 to Jekyll I would also take a look at "hugo"... very similar but easier to install and configure (in my opinion).
I see only a major drawback in using a static site generator: they haven't an embedded search engine (the only alternative I've found is lunr). 2017-12-06 17:35 GMT+01:00 Piergiorgio Lucidi <[email protected]>: > +1 from me to adopt Jekyll, I agree with Muhammed > > I think that in this way we could choose a very nice website template to > use. > We can also add a blog for publishing news about ManifoldCF releases and > community. > > > > 2017-11-16 13:31 GMT+01:00 Muhammed Olgun <[email protected]>: > > > What about this process. > > > > 1) Find a modern new static site generator like Jekyll. [1] > > 2) Create a template > > 3) Start to use it in a specific path like > > https://manifoldcf.apache.org/*new* > > 4) Migrate our Forrest xml's to Markdown (we can automate this somehow) > > 5) Start to serve our new site on root path > > > > [1] https://jekyllrb.com/docs/home/ > > > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 3:00 PM Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I think this would be great, if we could do it. > > > What technology should we pick? We use Apache Forrest, which has > serious > > > limitations for formatting. > > > > > > Karl > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:41 AM, Muhammed Olgun <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > I agree with Piergiorgio. I’d like to help. > > > > > > > > So +1 > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > Muhammed > > > > On 16 Nov 2017 Thu at 13:24 Furkan KAMACI <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Piergiorgio, > > > > > > > > > > We certainly need a prettier website for ManifoldCF. UI is so > > important > > > > and > > > > > people creates their first impressions when they touch our > website. I > > > > would > > > > > like to help such effort. > > > > > > > > > > By the way, we can consider this template too: > > > > > https://cloudstack.apache.org > > > > > > > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > > Furkan KAMACI > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Piergiorgio Lucidi < > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > > > > > > > during the Open Source Summit Europe I received a lot of > feedbacks > > > > > related > > > > > > to our website. > > > > > > > > > > > > Taking a look at other Apache projects such as Spark[1] or > > OFBiz[2], > > > it > > > > > is > > > > > > clear that ManifoldCF needs a restyling for its own website. I > > think > > > > > that a > > > > > > brand new website could help us for engaging more people in the > > > > community > > > > > > as users and also contributors giving the right perception of a > > > stable > > > > > and > > > > > > a working project. > > > > > > > > > > > > I had the opportunity to work and talk with some Apache > members[3] > > > and > > > > > > Sharan Foga from the OFBiz community proposed us to use the same > > > > website > > > > > > template [4]. > > > > > > I know that it is a huge work but I think that if we try to > follow > > > some > > > > > > existent project in terms of how expose contents, we can achieve > > this > > > > > goal > > > > > > in the right way without investing too much time. > > > > > > > > > > > > What do you think about this? > > > > > > Please let me know. > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > PJ > > > > > > > > > > > > [1] - https://spark.apache.org/ > > > > > > [2] - https://ofbiz.apache.org/ > > > > > > [3] - > > > > > > https://www.open4dev.com/journal/2017/11/3/open-source- > > > > > > summit-europe-2017-wrap-up > > > > > > [4] - https://drive.google.com/open?id=16gKmmfHqP0oVYdr2- > > > > hHnoi2NtvCdIe0G > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Piergiorgio Lucidi > > > > > > Open Source Evangelist and Enterprise Information Management > > > Specialist > > > > > > Mentor / PMC Member / Committer @ Apache Software Foundation > > > > > > Community Star / Wiki Gardener / Global Forum Moderator @ > Alfresco > > > > > > Author and Technical Reviewer @ Packt Publishing > > > > > > Technical Advisory Group Member @ Microsoft > > > > > > Top Community Contributor @ Crafter > > > > > > Project Leader / Committer @ JBoss > > > > > > https://www.open4dev.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Piergiorgio Lucidi > Open Source Evangelist and Enterprise Information Management Specialist > Mentor / PMC Member / Committer @ Apache Software Foundation > Community Star / Wiki Gardener / Global Forum Moderator @ Alfresco > Author and Technical Reviewer @ Packt Publishing > Technical Advisory Group Member @ Microsoft > Top Community Contributor @ Crafter > Project Leader / Committer @ JBoss > https://www.open4dev.com >
