This is great. To start, I think I will create a wiki page so we can capture what we must have and what we would like to have in the website. For me, our website must communicate useful and engaging information about our project and what one can do with Royale. I would also like to include some features to demonstrate a little bit of what Royale can do--maybe viewstates to manage what displays when, localization (at least some of the site), responsive so it appears well on laptops and mobile devices, use of CSS, and other stuff...and then we can use the website itself as a demonstration of Royale's versatility.
The Infra guidelines say a project's site should not be dynamic, in the sense of using HTTP calls to get data that it then displays: the site should be "flat". But we may find that Royale code compiled to JavaScript can do lots of interestng things wiithout breaking the Infra rules. I will set up the wiki page tomorrow and let you all know that it is available for adding ideas. Andrew On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 5:42 PM Alina Kazi <alinakazi1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Great Maria and really its very good to show it in ApacheCon 2021. > > Great Idea Andrew, I would also love to contribute in any way I can. > Also, If you have some design in mind. Share with us. > Create a source repository,so we can start with jewel basic flat theme or > any other option that community suggests. We start migrating wordpress > website step by step. Until we have virtual machine or other stuff ready. > > Alina Kazi > > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2021, 10:03 PM Maria Jose Esteve, <mjest...@iest.com> > wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > Andrew, I can help, I think the community has to make an effort if we > want > > to get to ApacheCon 2021 😝 > > > > Have you thought about a redesign of the website or a "translation"? > > > > How could I contribute? > > > > > > > > Hiedra > > > > > > > > -----Mensaje original----- > > De: Andrew Wetmore <cottag...@gmail.com> > > Enviado el: jueves, 15 de abril de 2021 1:51 > > Para: Apache Royale Development <dev@royale.apache.org> > > Asunto: Use Royale to build the Royale website? > > > > > > > > Hi: > > > > > > > > At the moment the Royale website depends on a private server running > > WordPress. I wonder if it is time to build and deploy it using Royale > > itself. > > > > > > > > We don't need the great strengths of Royale--dynamic display, subtle > > data-processing, and so on--to support the site. It is (as all projects > > sites are intended to be) a flat, relatively static website. That should > > mean that running our own website with the aid of our own tool should be > > far from impossible. > > > > > > > > What is required? If I understand correctly, we would need Infra to > > provide a virtual machine on which we could install and run a stable > > instance of Royale, and a repository of the site's source code in MXML > and > > AS files, just like a real Royale application.. Each time we updated a > page > > or a file in the website repository, Infra's automated tools would set > off > > a build and deployment of the updated site. > > > > > > > > Some time ago a proof-of-concept was partly built to do this very thing, > > so we have some resources to start from. > > > > > > > > Benefits: > > > > > > > > -- Since it is a simple website, it should probably be an exercise > > contributors and committers at many skill levels could help work on. > > > > -- It would give us a "brag" to point to. > > > > -- We would move over to open-source resources, rather than those of > > WordPress.. > > > > -- Infra has an efficient and stable CI process in place that can work > > with Royale's command-line to trigger builds and deployment. > > > > -- Other???? > > > > > > > > Costs: > > > > > > > > -- Time to migrate the existing site into Royale assets. > > > > -- Other????? > > > > > > > > What do you all think of such a proposal? > > > > > > > > a > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Andrew Wetmore > > > -- Andrew Wetmore http://cottage14.blogspot.com/
