I took a quick look at Jekyll last night and was able to convert the existing site over to markdown and get it up and running pretty quickly. I think using something like Jekyll or Hyde with markdown content would be beneficial because it would simplify the process for adding new tutorials and other items. The CMS looks like it will be a good option for static pages that are not in flux, but with our tutorials and other content needing so much work keeping the site in source control and getting patches from the community will allow for us to quickly generate content. Forest is great, but the setup, configuration and xdoc format is a little more than we currently need. Keeping it simple so people can easily submit back new pages will help get our site to where is should be. Here is the jekyll sample I threw together if anyone would like to take a look, css needs some cleaning up but overall concept is there
- Jake Site: http://people.apache.org/~jfarrell/ Source: http://people.apache.org/~jfarrell/jekyll/ On Nov 23, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Jake Farrell wrote: > I'm taking a looking to the CMS right now to see what it has to offer, if we > go down the road of a site generator I think looking at something like jekyll > would be a good idea. Using a backend of simple markdown file and the > addition of syntax highlighting via pygments and its current use for github > pages it should be easy for people to use and add content to > > -Jake > > > ________________________________________ > From: Joe Schaefer [[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 4:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Thrift Web Site > > I'll still throw in my 2 cents for you guys to use the CMS. > We don't currently support Forrest sites, but a guinea pig > willing to sort that out would be appreciated. > > In any case I'll get you guys on svnpubsub if you decide to > still not use the ASF CMS. It's important to infra to get > you off rsync at some point. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Bryan Duxbury <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Cc: >> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 5:02 PM >> Subject: Re: Thrift Web Site >> >> Sounds like a worthy effort to continue. >> >> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Roger Meier >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi all >>> >>> I played a bit around with Apache Forrest and it might be an option to use >>> it for a new Thrift Web Site. >>> The homegrown static page generator CMS we have today is difficult to >>> handle, so we get not that much contributions on documentation. >>> Apache Forrest provides good formats to manage content and export it into >>> several formats. >>> >>> Here's a first example http://people.apache.org/~roger/thrift/ >>> >>> What do you think? >>> Should I proceed with this? >>> Is this an option to get better documentation? >>> Merge Wiki, White Paper, etc. into a Forrest based Web Site? >>> >>> -roger >>> >>> >>
