I did some learning about the details regarding project websites at the ASF.
Looks like there are a number of options available. I looked over the websites for every Apache TLP and there are some basic consistencies... - Sites built with Apache Forrest (Lucene, Hadoop, WS) - Sites built with Maven (Continuum, Maven, PDFBox, Logging) - Sites built with some unknown but consistent system (Felix/Sling) - Custom sites (ActiveMQ, Thrift, Cassandra) On the JIRA ticket from a little while back, Prescott was trying to figure this same thing out and there was a reference to an "ASF 'house' CMS", but I was unable to find any further information about that. Some relevant links: http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/pmcs http://incubator.apache.org/guides/branding.html My personal preference is the use whatever template that Felix/Sling are using: http://felix.apache.org/site/index.html http://sling.apache.org/site/index.html I think it's clean, modern, and versatile. The Maven built sites look ok as well, but not as pretty. I'm not a fan of Forrest. Thanks, Troy On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Troy Howard <thowar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been impressed by Prescott Nasser's work in this area. > > I would like to nominate him for managing documentation. That includes > leading the discussion on how to proceed with documentation. > > One thing that is unclear to me at this point are the details of the > project website. I don't know how much control over that we have. I'm > a big fan of systems like Redmine that incorporate wiki/issue > tracking/source browsers/new feeds/etc all in one integrated > interface. The Apache way of doing this seems to be to use dedicated > systems for each task (JIRA for issue tracking, Moin Moin for wiki, > etc) which, to me, creates a lack of cohesion and a barrier to users > who are trying to find information or report issues. > > Anyhow, again, not too sure how much control we have of the project > site or what resources are available on the server. Does the site have > to be static (i.e. HTML/CSS/JS only?) Does the web server have > anything like Python, Perl, PHP, etc. installed, so that we could make > something more interactive? What's the ASF expectation for project > sites? Many of them have a similar look and feel (as if created from > the same template or CMS). Should we just work with that? > > Thanks, > Troy > > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Michael Herndon <mhern...@o19s.com> wrote: >> *Last one for the year, See ya next year & Happy New Year to all.* >> * >> * >> *Documentation.* >> * >> * >> Who should be responsible for this? Where should it live? Wiki or should >> we have a separate site that aggregates. blogs, twitter feeds, facebook, >> tutorials, wiki, documentation, etc? >> >> I propose that we have specify someone to own this to make sure that it gets >> done (they don't have to actually document everything, but delegate the >> responsibility around make sure that it does get done). Otherwise it might >> never get done. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Michael Herndon >> Senior Developer (mhern...@o19s.com) >> 804.767.0083 >> >> [connect online] >> http://www.opensourceconnections.com >> http://www.amptools.net >> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-herndon/4/893/23 >> http://www.facebook.com/amptools.net >> http://www.twitter.com/amptools-net >> >
