Re: Next steps to improve the website

[David E. Jones]

On Feb 26, 2007, at 4:15 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:

Hi all,

what about slowly moving on the website refactoring?
Here are a few small steps that in my opinion should help this effort:

1) remove (or at least comment out) from the main page the section about "Open Source Projects & Standards" (at the bottom of the page); it is not necessary, it is not up to date and could be confusing

Jacques has an interesting point about this. Maybe a good alternative to both options would be to move this to a confluence page and just not have it so prominent on the home page.

2) add a message about the upcoming dev conference (even if it is an unofficial Apache event)

This is next week, so it would be a good idea, and actually I should have done this a long time ago! I'll send out another email reminder about this to the dev list.

3) split the "Docs&Books" page into two different pages:

3b) "Books" page, leave it in html

3a) "Documentation" that is the main index for the documentation, and it should go into the Confluence server

This sounds like a good idea. We should be able to move the Books part of the page to confluence as well.

4) remove the top tabs "Home" and "Docs&Books" and use links in the left column instead

+1

Finally, we should start to seriously consider to move the Confluence docs into an official Apache server.

-David

We should continue considering it, but I think we aren't ready for this yet. Aside from the fact that it will take some time and patience to get the new spaces and permissions and such setup, I don't think we know yet exactly how we want to organize everything (ie how many and which spaces we actually need/want), and I'm also not sure yet about the ASF policies or de-facto practices related to this, and we need to make sure those will work for us. In other words, this is still a pretty new area and I think we actually still have a number of complaints and things that may need to be changed, and it's nice to have a server that we have control of while we are experimenting (well, during the fairly rare occasions that we can spend time on this anyway... as it is one of many priorities).

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