L.S.,
With the Apache ServiceMix 4.4.0 release coming up, I would like to move ahead and promote the new website as well. We haven't really finished the new look and feel, but we do have a working copy in http://servicemix.apache.org/staging/ based on the current look and feel of the website. A while ago, I stripped all the non-relevant contents from the staged website and today I added the a new download page too (cfr. http://servicemix.apache.org/staging/downloads.html) to clarify the different download options we will have available with 4.4.0. There's still some content missing but at least the new site does a much better job at pointing people to ServiceMix 4 instead of earlier editions. That's why I would like to promote this staged copy somewhere in the next few days and then iron out the issues as we get feedback from users over the next few weeks. If that's OK for everyone, I think the required steps to promote the website are: - modify the crontab entries that move the current exported wiki site to e.g. http://servicemix.apache.org/3.x - modify the download pages in the new website to look like the 4.4.0 one - add a link to the old site from the new website - publish the new website and remove any stale pages left over by the old export - (let me know if I missed anything here) For the documentation, we have been trying in the past to get those pages to look exactly the same as the main website. The current look for those pages (http://servicemix.apache.org/docs/4.4.0/) is based on an old prototype from the main website. How about removing most of that layout for now and just do something simple with the same icons/color scheme/... as the main website but without trying to reproduce all the headers/navigation/...? The downside is that the documentation will not 'blend into' the website as it does now, but it will allow us to make a more clear navigation for the documentation on itself. Personally, I think this will be a better solution in the long run anyway, but we can always blend things together again once we worked out the final look and feel for the website as well. Regards, Gert Vanthienen ------------------------ FuseSource Web: http://fusesource.com Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/
