During the hackathon in Aachen we discussed our website, and whether we should / could update its look and feel a bit. This is separate from our wiki, which we already intend to move to the ASF confluence wiki (still working on that, whenever I have some spare minutes).
I asked on [email protected] for guidelines or tips [1]. Didn't get much out of it unfortunately, except a couple of references to required links ([2], [3]) and branding policy [4]. Looking at other ASF projects, there is clearly a lot of diversity, but some definitely look more modern, and some look oldish :-). I'm a total noob on website design, so I'm not going to go further with this myself. But if anyone would like to work on this and try some things, that'd be great. I suppose a lot can be accomplished by tweaking the css and related UI stuff. I think we should be able to try out various things on subversion-staging, and discuss what people think about it etc ... Or perhaps it would be better to set up another branch of our website, specifically for working on the design (subversion-design.apache.org or whatever). Some things to keep in mind: - Don't break existing links. - Watch out for requirements ([2], [3], [4]). Related random idea: I think it'd be nice to integrate a "task" widget, like they have on httpd.apache.org for example [5], powered by helpwanted.apache.org. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/80793924f3cc1f0e9b2923858cb4cc9175e4d6cca30e9320b929fbc2@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E [2] "Where's the code", mail thread about having clear links to the source code: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f33c88b52afbf65aabb028772dcd08ebb78a237d99221566754fa82a@%3Cdev.community.apache.org%3E [3] TLP website check: https://whimsy.apache.org/site/check [4] https://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs [5] http://httpd.apache.org/#want-to-contribute-to-the-apache-http-server -- Johan
