Your effort is greatly appreciated.   I reviewed the site earlier today.  It
looks great.
+1 to move.

-----Original Message-----
From: Claude Brisson [mailto:cla...@renegat.net]
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 7:20 PM
To: dev@velocity.apache.org
Subject: [VOTE] New site layout - Apache CMS

Hi Folks.

The site hasn't moved for years, and nobody really knows how to build it (it
used patched Maven plugins that were once installed somewhere on a machine
that has since disappeared).

Should we want to release something today, we're more or less stuck.
Plus, the design is now really outdated, there are plenty of dead links,
etc...

So I felt it was time to do something about it, and I had a few days this
week : the opportinuty makes the thief, I revamped the site layout and moved
its sources from xdoc/apt/doap/... to markdown and xslt (and a few lines of
perl).

The site sources are visible here:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/velocity/site/cms/trunk/

There is a preview here: http://test.renegat.net

I made several choices in the revamping process. I'll try to lighten a bit
the menus, moved Anakia, DVSL, Texen and DocBook Framework to an Archive
section, got rid of most of useless empty report pages but tried to keep
most essential ones. If you feel something is missing, just tell me.

Now to the vote: switch to this new site and to the Apache CMS?

[  ] -1
[  ] 0
[X]+1

Should the vote pass, I'll open an infra issue to switch to the Apache CMS.

Once done, every commiter will be able to update pages on the site by use of
a simple bookmarklet (which will commit changes, let one preview the staged
result, then push changes to the production site). Other users can use the
bookmarklet to submit patches.


   --
   Claude


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