Thanks Lewis! I think with stuff like this its hard to fully explain over email without a 10000 word essay.
Anyway, I said I'd leave it but I got bored so I wondered what else Jekyll could do to help us and here's a couple of things I came up with: https://github.com/buggtb/oodt-website/blob/gh-pages/_config.yml#L29 The downloads page on the CMS is manually updated, but you know me, I love a bit of automation, so in Jekyll we could dump the release info in here and watch it magically build: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8503756/oodt-website/download.html That way it should be dead simple to keep the download page up to date. I then wondered about other stuff so I looked at the PMC list, it'll get stale easily, so what could I do to sort that out: https://github.com/buggtb/oodt-website/blob/gh-pages/_plugins/pcm_generator.rb Greps the new ASF phone book and extracts our PMC members, as I'm a giving kind of guy, I'll parametrize it and Joshua or whatever can use it as well when its done. Currently the PMC list is on the download page, ignore that it was just for testing. Anyway there you go. Couple more nuggets that could make the website maintenance a whole lot simpler. Tom On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:59 AM, Tom Barber <tom.bar...@meteorite.bi> > wrote: > > > > > When I took over the chair from SK, my unofficial aim was to use this > chair > > period to try and get the business users involved, my day job requires me > > to drive users to our product and get them interested enough to test it, > > whilst OODT isn't commercial, ultimately the goal is the same, to gain > > users and community members, we need users, and we need users who don't > > just work in the scientific domain. Whilst the odd person might swing by > > the mailing list, in reality, 99% of users will land on the homepage, and > > that is the determining factor as to whether they bother to investigate > > further. Which is why I spend a lot of time prioritising stuff that > doesn't > > really make a lot of sense to the rest of you! :) > > > > > For the record its worth me stating here that I totally understand your > PoV. When you showed me your BI workflow examples way back @ApacheCon I > realized that your use cases were different. It's very refreshing to see > software re-purposed or presented in a different manner. An eye opener so > to speak. > Look forward to seeing what kind of roadmap we come up with @ApacheCon this > year again. > Ta >
