Hi Gaurav, I'm going to go ahead with what I have this week (without the
carousel), in the interim, please go ahead with the carousel'ed version
(either [1] or [2] is good) There's two parts to this work: one is
getting us to bootstrap (there's no guarantee just copying the files to
our website folder will cause it to work -- I need to research this, the
current website uses Apache CMS and may be expecting Markdown instead of
HTML files), for that we just need a simple but workable website (what I
have.) Once #1 is done, you're welcome to add/replace with any other
bootstrap pages--carousel and whatever other bells and whistles.
Make sure the screenshots look good. It's better to have nothing than
have something that looks bad. By doing the carousel after the
deployment of the non-carouseled version, this gives us time to have
good screenshots while not forcing us to rush the screenshots just so we
can get on Bootstrap.
I do need you check out the current non-bootstrap website, make a
trivial change to it--add the word "test" to a page maybe, svn commit
it, view the word "test" on staging, publish it to our production
website, view the word "test" on our production website, undo your
trivial change, commit your undo, view it on staging, and publish your
undo. In getting from A to B you need to understand A first (you need
SVN practice). It's all documented here:
http://roller.apache.org/getinvolved/edit_website.html and I'm available
either on the dev@ list of off-line for any questions you have.
Regards,
Glen
On 07/13/2014 07:22 AM, Gaurav Saini wrote:
Hello Glen,
Great work, website now looks good. I have searched a bit and found 2
themes if you can consider them [1]
<http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/> [2]
<http://startbootstrap.com/templates/modern-business/index.html> and
have one of these which seems to be more good to you.
Also, the Roller current home page have a lot of content we can add
that also to these pages.
Glen, I can build the roller website on top of any of these two
themes, if it looks good to you and will share with the community.
Also, I am interested in adding some images to the carousel, if you
have any idea of what type of images we can add up there (some pics
can be screenshot of roller UI ).
[1] - http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/
[2] - http://startbootstrap.com/templates/modern-business/index.html
Thanks
Gaurav
On Thursday 10 July 2014 03:06 AM, Glen Mazza wrote:
Hi team, in ROL-2024 I attached a .tar.gz file showing a proposed
Bootstrap-based website to replace our current Roller website. This
is just a starter website, something we can build on over time (in
particular, one thing I'd like to eventually see is a Bootstrap
"carousel" of rotating screenshots, like OpenMeetings has:
http://openmeetings.apache.org/).
Please take a look at the website and let me know if this is good
enough to make live, if not, what changes you would like prior to
that happening. Please distinguish between before-deployment changes
(my main concern here -- right now, I'm just trying to modernize our
current roller.apache.org site, so it only has to be better than that
right now), and changes that anyone can do after the site goes live.
Don't worry about hurting my feelings--the purpose of this website is
to expand Roller's usership many-fold, if you don't think this design
will accomplish it, I want to hear it. :)
Regards,
Glen
