Hi Lukasz, Sorry for the late reply -- these images are really starting to look better every time! I really think this design is getting very close to the end result and we should start to integrate things into the website20 sandbox project. I love the general look and feel, the images and icons in the boxes, the way a new user is guided to the downloads/docs/community from his/her first visit, the fact that we also have a window on what's happening in twitter/blogosphere/jira/...
Just a few minor things about this last proposal: - I'd make the blue bar on the top slightly lower, there's no need for the search box to be 3 x the height of the letters - I'm not sure about the big 'Leading enterprise service bus...' image at the top - The blue box around the home navigation item looks a bit big compared to everything else in the header, perhaps we can find another way to highlight the current page? - We'd have to find a way to make the three boxes at the bottom look a bit more similar, but we can probably do that by replacing the widgets with a little RSS javascript thingy though Anyway, if we can get this thing worked out over the next few weeks so it can go live together with the new release, that will be an awesome achievement for the ServiceMix community. Thanks for all the hard work you're putting into these proposals! Gert Vanthienen ------------------------ FuseSource Web: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/ 2010/11/3 Łukasz Dywicki <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > I have all ideas connected into one page: > http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/1718/servicemix46.jpg > > Please take a look and let us know - is it nice and what could be done > better. > > Best regards, > Lukasz > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 12:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Discussion] Design update > > I created a barebones project at > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/servicemix/sandbox/website20 > > Right now it is just the sitegen sample from the scalate distro. I plan on > hacking it into something more over the weekend. > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Eric Johnson > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Will do. >> >> On Friday, October 22, 2010, Guillaume Nodet <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Well, we actually already have a sandbox opened to committers ? I did > not >> > remember it was set up like that. >> > >> > Eric, feel free to create your own tree in the servicemix sandbox and >> hack >> > at will there ! :-) >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 15:38, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> On Friday 22 October 2010 9:27:43 am Guillaume Nodet wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 15:19, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > On Friday 22 October 2010 9:10:01 am Guillaume Nodet wrote: >> >> > > > Dan, Given Eric is not a committer, I don't see any other way if >> he >> >> > > > wants to get started. >> >> > > >> >> > > Create a sandbox open to all Apache committers. Several projects >> have >> >> > > them, >> >> > > including CXF, Maven, etc... Trivial to setup. >> >> > >> >> > Right, good idea. Do you know how to set that up ? With the new ldap >> >> > permissions, i'm not quite sure how the svn permissions is set up > now. >> >> >> >> No ldap needed, just edit the asf-authorization-template file. The CXF >> >> entry: >> >> >> >> [/cxf] >> >> @cxf = rw >> >> >> >> [/cxf/sandbox] >> >> @committers = rw >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > What I was trying to suggest was to see if scalate can get stuck >> into >> >> the >> >> > > CMS >> >> > > there somehow instead of the Perl templating thing they have now. >> I >> >> > > THINK you would still be able to use the "svn checked out" type >> form, >> >> > > but for others, you could just use the web frontend and not bother >> with >> >> > > svn checkouts, >> >> > > commits, etc.... Was just a thought. That said, I don't know >> how >> >> > > "ready" >> >> > > it is yet. Possibly something to investigate later. >> >> > >> >> > Yeah, the svn based is really one of the important thing imho. It >> makes >> >> it >> >> > way easier to submit patches. Also, from what i read, the CMS is >> bound >> >> to >> >> > markdown atm, >> >> >> >> Well, it associates file extensions with a process to run somehow. If >> you >> >> edit a file with extension "mdtext", it uses the Perl thing, but it >> >> supposedly >> >> can be extended for a bunch of other things. See: >> >> >> >> http://www.staging.apache.org/dev/cms.html#templating >> >> >> >> >> >> Dan >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > I actually did not really understand where the value was, but >> >> > I may have missed something. It looks to me that scalate is way more >> >> > powerful. >> >> > >> >> > > Dan >> >> > > >> >> > > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 15:00, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > > > > On Friday 22 October 2010 8:40:35 am Eric Johnson wrote: >> >> > > > > > Would it make sense to start a github project >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > > Only if you want your next board report to say SMX > collaboration >> is >> >> > > > > happening >> >> > > > > at GitHub. Hint: that won't go over well. >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > > > and start hacking together a >> >> > > > > > scalate version of the static site incorporating the design >> ideas >> >> > > >> >> > > being >> >> > > >> >> > > > > > offered? (I suggest scalate because the Apache infrastructure >> >> team >> >> > > > > > is deprecating Confluence due to lack of maintenance on the >> >> static >> >> > > > > > site >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > > export >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > > > plug-in.) >> >> > > > > >> >> > > > > What MAY actually be an interesting idea is to approach INFRA >> and >> >> ask >> >> > > >> >> > > for >> >> > > >> >> > > > > some >> >> > > > > details on the new CMS. It supposedly has a pluggable >> >> > > > > template/markup system, but I don't know how "pluggable" it >> really >> >> > > > > is (like is a JVM allowed). >> >> > > > > All the content would be in SVN so folks could contribute that >> way >> >> or >> >> > > >> >> > > use >> >> > > >> >> > > > > the >> >> > > > > web gui thing, it supports stagin-- >> > Cheers, >> > Guillaume Nodet >> > ------------------------ >> > Blog: http://gnodet.blogspot.com/ >> > ------------------------ >> > Open Source SOA >> > http://fusesource.com >> > >> >> -- >> Principle Technical Writer >> >> Phone (781) 280-4174 >> Skype finnmccumial >> E-Mail [email protected] >> Blog http://documentingit.blogspot.com/ >> > > > > -- > Principle Technical Writer > > Phone (781) 280-4174 > Skype finnmccumial > E-Mail [email protected] > Blog http://documentingit.blogspot.com/ > >
