I'm going to ask a designer friend of mine if he will take a stab at redesigning the site, so it may happen. But comes down to lack of resources to rewrite the site. Any info on how to use CMS with PHP?
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]>wrote: > That's how svnpubsub would work, yes. TBH I was hoping Thrift > would adopt the CMS, as it's probably possible to use the existing > php stuff instead of converting to django/markdown, but it's up > to you guys. > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Jake Luciani <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Sent: Tue, February 8, 2011 10:26:58 AM > > Subject: Re: straightening out the website infra > > > > Hi Joe, > > > > Just did the release for thrift 0.6.0 and the website is currently in > svn. > > > > So you will make it so whenever we make changes to > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/thrift/site/publish/ the changes will > be > > auto synced to the site? That would be great. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Jake > > > > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Since I haven't heard back yet, I'd like to suggest that > > > at least for the short term we adopt svnpubsub for managing > > > the website. Also I'd like to get the thrift distribution > > > tree under svnpubsub as well. > > > > > > If there are no objections, I'll move on this towards the > > > end of the week. > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > > From: Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> > > > > To: [email protected] > > > > Sent: Fri, January 28, 2011 11:41:34 AM > > > > Subject: straightening out the website infra > > > > > > > > It's been a while since the website situation has been > > > > discussed, but I feel like it's time to have that conversation > > > > again since there hasn't been any progress on that front. > > > > > > > > The Infrastructure Team has a goal of migrating all websites > > > > to either the new CMS or to svnpubsub by year's end. There's > > > > currently almost 100 tlp's that will need to make the needed > > > > changes to their website infra. > > > > > > > > I'd like to get Thrift sorted soon so I can move on to other > > > > projects that will need assistance in migrating. Looking over > > > > your existing solution, if you wish to keep things pretty much > > > > as-is the simplest thing to do is to adopt svnpubsub. Commits > > > > to the build portion of your tree will appear automatically > > > > on the live site- no more waiting an hour or two to rsync after > > > > manually svn upping the thrift dir on people.apache.org. > > > > > > > > If you want to use the CMS instead, you'll get instant > publication, > > > > automated builds, and an easy-to-use web interface for editing, > > > > without giving up the fact that the site sources will be in svn. > > > > The downside is that there would be work involved for someone to > > > > port the existing content to django templates and markdown content, > > > > tho even that is negotiable. > > > > > > > > So those are the options. More information on the CMS and > svnpubsub > > > > is available at http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html and > > > > http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html . > > > > > > > > HTH > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
