Hey Sarthak! Welcome to the Otava community! I believe that improving the project website is one of the most important development areas for the project, as mentioned in our status reports (e.g., [1], [2]).
Your PR with the landing page improvement looks very promising! I left a detailed review there. Your plan also makes sense to me at a high-level. Regarding the blog, I do wonder if we can borrow some of the articles from Nyrkio's blog that are specifically about Apache Otava (e..g, [3]). Also, there have been a bunch of papers/talks about Otava/Hunter over the years. It would be great to have a single page where all of them are linked. The docs overhaul may feel somewhat overwhelming, which is one of the reasons I personally did not get to it. When in doubt, I encourage you to bias towards reaching out for suggestions and ask questions, no matter how small or nuanced they seem to be. Best, Alex 1. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/June2026#otava 2. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INCUBATOR/March2026#otava 3. https://blog.nyrkio.com/2026/06/06/change-detection-otava-0-8-0-released-compare-algorithms-with-otava-playground-demo-app/ On Sun, Jun 28, 2026 at 8:10 AM Sarthak Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks, > > > I'm Sarthak, and I'm reaching out to the list for the first time. > > > I saw the open ticket regarding updates to the website (#111) > <https://github.com/apache/otava/issues/111> and wanted to take a swing at > it. > > I've opened an initial PR here: > https://github.com/apache/otava-website/pull/13 > > > This PR updates the front page by adding some visualizations to help build > intuition for newcomers. Please review it and let me know what you > think. I'm open to feedback, suggestions, or alternative ideas for the > landing page. > > > My high-level plan for the rest of the ticket includes: > > 1. Docs Overhaul (Cosmetic & Content): Right now, the docs make a lot of > sense if you already know what Otava is, but they lack a structured, > logical flow for a newcomer. I'd love to restructure them to better > explain > the problem Otava solves and how it works under the hood. > 2. Community Section: Update this to explicitly list the project > Committers and PMC members (meeting the incubator guidelines mentioned > in > the ticket). > 3. Blog Tab: Set up the framework for a blog section. If anyone already > has content or a draft they'd like to share, please reply here and I can > incorporate it. Otherwise, I can lay the groundwork so it's ready when > the > community needs it > > As I'm new to Otava, I'd love to use this thread to: > > - Iterate on feedback for the current PR and the broader website plan > - Ask questions and learn more from the existing community members > > Looking forward to working with you all! > > > Best, > > Sarthak >
