I really like the proposed Home Page as well.  I agree with Jamie that we
should flatten out ServiceMix 3 and 4 in the navigation column a bit.  To
take his suggestions even further, I propose that we have ServiceMix 3 and
ServiceMix 4 as their own top level menu items, with sub-items for
documentation, downloads, source, etc.  For ServiceMix 4, I am thinking the
Features, NMR and Kernel variations should be de-emphasized slightly by just
referring to Features as ServiceMix 4.  This is what most people think of as
ServiceMix 4 anyway.  We could differentiate between them on the ServiceMix
4 main page once the user gets there.

I think the main page has been confusing for a while so I think this is a
great time to dig in and revise it a bit before we release the 3.x updates,
4.1, and the new components releases.  I think flattening things out to be a
bit more concise on the main page will help a lot of people navigate the
sire and understand the differences between SMX3 and 4.

I'll be happy to spend a couple of days reviewing and making these updates
if everyone generally agrees on this.
--
Chris Custine
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Jamie G. <[email protected]> wrote:

> I really like the new home page design :)
>
> The only part that I could see a small improvement is in the
> 'Community' side panel. Specifically the three entries; Servicemix
> 4.0, Servicemix Kernel, and Servicemix NMR.  Could we reorganize these
> into:
>
> Servicemix 3 (linked to http://servicemix.apache.org/getting-started.html)
> Servicemix 4 Features (linked to
> http://servicemix.apache.org/SMX4/index.html)
> Servicemix 4 NMR (linked tohttp://servicemix.apache.org/SMX4NMR/index.html)
> Servicemix 4 Kernel (linked to
> http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-karaf.html)
> Servicemix Components (linked to
> http://servicemix.apache.org/components-list.html)
>
> This would help let new users quickly identify the different projects
> under Servicemix and to which version(s) they belong.
>
> Cheers,
> J
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Yes why not. It can be a step two in the documentation project.
> >
> > From my point of view, the purpose of wiki -> DocBook is to avoid to
> rewrite
> > all the content.
> >
> > After we have two ways:
> > 1/ the wiki is the master and the documentation is generated from there:
> the
> > advantage is that it's simple to edit and provide but I'm not sure that
> the
> > generated documentation will be very fine
> > 2/ the wiki pages will be deprecated and the sources are "static".
> >
> > Regards
> > JB
> >
> > Charles Moulliard wrote:
> >>
> >> That's perfect for me.
> >>
> >> Probably that we will need also a command to transform docbook into
> >> HTML page of wiki in order to synchronise docBook with Wiki in a
> >> symetric way.
> >>
> >> I don't know if this is interesting but there is a confluence docbook
> >> converter plugin :
> >>
> http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEXT/Confdoc+DocBook+Converter
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Charles Moulliard
> >> Senior Enterprise Architect
> >> Apache Camel Committer
> >>
> >> *****************************
> >> blog : http://cmoulliard.blogspot.com
> >> twitter : http://twitter.com/cmoulliard
> >> Linkedlin : http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesmoulliard
> >>
> >> Apache Camel Group :
> >> http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2447439&trk=anet_ug_hm
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> FYI, I have begun to write a maven plugin (in my sandbox repo) to:
> >>> - transform a DocBook documentations into HTML, FO, PDF
> >>> - be able to get confluence wiki HTML source, apply JTidy on it to
> >>> transform
> >>> into XHTML and apply a XSL to go to DocBook.
> >>>
> >>> This plugin will be used to generate the ServiceMix manual from
> provided
> >>> DocBook document and to init these documents from the wiki.
> >>>
> >>> I would like to resume the work on the manual and, in the same of the
> >>> first
> >>> manual release, promotes http://servicemix.apache.org/home2.html to
> give
> >>> more visibility.
> >>>
> >>> What do you think about this ?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Regards
> >>> JB
> >>>
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Baptiste Onofré (Nanthrax)
> > BuildProcess/AutoDeploy Project Leader
> > http://buildprocess.sourceforge.net
> > [email protected]
> > PGP : 17D4F086
> >
>

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