+1 from myself.
I discuss your remarks below, but it's orthogonal with the vote and the
switch itselft, we can change anything later on.
On 17/05/2016 03:38, Will Glass-Husain wrote:
Wow. That's so nice. Much easier to find stuff. I offer a +1 no matter
what.
Two pieces of feedback.
* The font look a little strange to me. Are you wedded to it? It's a
little vertically stretched. Maybe use the same font as the main Apache
site?
It's only a proposal. I took the inspiration from
http://qpid.apache.org, which I like quite much (in fact, I reviewed all
the apache sites, and this one was really standing out of the crowd, so
I borrowed its fonts and a few other things).
I took the headers colors from apache.org. Looks better (make sure to do
a shift+refresh).
Are others disturbed by the choice of the fonts?
* Should we explain what Velocity is on the main page? Right now the main
page is process oriented. Project of the foundation, open source, etc. It
doesn't explain what we are about. Suggestion -- move the section "What
is Velocity" from the Engine section to the top of the home page. Then in
the Engine section we could have a 2 sentence intro paragraph explaining
how to get started. (link to the docs). What do you think?
I agree. I copied the section, but let it as is for now in the engine
section.
Same, it's nothing to do with the switch itself.
WILL
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Nathan Bubna <nbu...@gmail.com> wrote:
+1 You're my hero, Claude.
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:19 PM, Claude Brisson <cla...@renegat.net>
wrote:
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the design is now really outdated, there are plenty of dead links, etc...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
[ ]+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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