> On Dec 26, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Blaise Laflamme <[email protected]> wrote: > > You're right about this issue and I think time has come to do something. > > Me and Paul started some efforts on this and never finished it but we were on > a good track I think. What I suggested him lately was to streamline and > narrow the original scope and start work on unifying what we have. > > For sure I need to finish the brand stuff I already started and spread it > across what we already have online but we also need to rethink how the > information is structured and how we relate everything. > > I propose to move this discussion over slack :)
Sounds fun. Let’s create a #pylons there..oh wait, we don’t want to perpetuate the word “Pylons”…oh wait, we want to reinforce it as an umbrella. Core dump. :) I think a Slack channel would be good. —Paul > > On Friday, December 26, 2014 1:56:07 AM UTC-5, Sontek wrote: > There is a lot of confusion around the "Pylons" organization and I think in > general our http://www.pylonsproject.org/ <http://www.pylonsproject.org/> > website doesn't help alleviate any of that confusion. For example you can't > even go to http://www.pylonsproject.org/projects > <http://www.pylonsproject.org/projects> and get a list of Pylons projects, > this just redirects to Pyramid's about page. > > I feel we should decide which are "official" pylons projects and make it > extremely obvious which ones fall under this umbrella. Off the top of my > head the following are ones probably worth listing under this umbrella: > > https://github.com/Pylons/colander <https://github.com/Pylons/colander> > https://github.com/Pylons/deform <https://github.com/Pylons/deform> > https://github.com/Pylons/substanced <https://github.com/Pylons/substanced> > https://github.com/Pylons/venusian <https://github.com/Pylons/venusian> > https://github.com/Pylons/waitress <https://github.com/Pylons/waitress> > https://github.com/Pylons/webtest <https://github.com/Pylons/webtest> > https://github.com/Pylons/webob <https://github.com/Pylons/webob> > > Now they all already live under the /Pylons/ organization on github but there > are plenty of less "complete" projects underneath that organization that > makes it hard to track down which are ready for prime time. > > The other big issue is a lot of these live under their domain, under > pythonpaste.org <http://pythonpaste.org/>, or don't have a website outside of > readthedocs at all. > > I propose that we create subdomains for each of them and make sure to be > consistent on including a footer that mentions that they are pylons projects. > This would be similar to how the Apache organization manages their projects: > > http://kafka.apache.org/ <http://kafka.apache.org/> > https://spark.apache.org/ <https://spark.apache.org/> > http://cassandra.apache.org/ <http://cassandra.apache.org/> > > and how pocoo does it: > > http://flask.pocoo.org/ <http://flask.pocoo.org/> > http://click.pocoo.org/ <http://click.pocoo.org/> > http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/ <http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/> > > It would probably also make sense to try to maintain a more consistent brand > across each projects website as well. Allowing each project to have some > personality of their own will be important by keeping a standard color scheme > and layout would help people recognize a pylons project immediately. > > What do you wonderful humans think? > > - sontek > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss > <http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
