BTW: I posted a link to Qpid off the www.amqp.org web site (and the other known AMQP products).
John On 04/12/06, Carl Trieloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I had volunteered to ask our design group... that is what the start if this mail was about so I guess I will go ahead as the mail has gone full circle John O'Hara wrote: > It does look good. Hides its Wiki'ness pretty well. > > Anyone volunteering :-) > > On 04/12/06, Johnson, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> That looks pretty good. >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: David Blevins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 8:50 PM >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: Web site >> > >> > Hi. I can tell you a bit about the OpenEJB auto export setup. >> > (http://incubator.apache.org/openejb/) >> > >> > Our template is here: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ >> > openejb/trunk/website/src/vm/openejb_autoexport.vm >> > >> > The publishing is a bit ad-hoc and somewhat manual still, but >> > it's better than nothing. >> > >> > For people who don't have shell access to cwiki, Jeff Turner >> > has a cron script that rsyncs all the autoexport generated >> > data from cwiki >> > to his home dir on people. I have a similar cron script >> > that rsyncs >> > from his dir to incubator.a.o./openejb. Here's that script: >> > >> > --site_update.sh-- >> > #!/usr/local/bin/bash >> > >> > LAST="$HOME/last-website-check" >> > >> > NEWEST="$(ls -t $LAST >> > /home/jefft/public_html/confluence/OPENEJB/* | grep -m1 '^')" >> > >> > if [ "$NEWEST" != "$LAST" ]; then >> > /usr/local/bin/rsync -tvr /home/jefft/public_html/confluence/OPENEJB/ >> > * /www/incubator.apache.org/openejb/ >> > fi >> > >> > touch "$LAST" >> > ------------------ >> > >> > I run that once an hour. >> > >> > The base site -- images, stylesheets, presentations, and >> > other goodies -- is all entirely in svn and I periodically >> > update svn manually with the latest generated content. >> > >> > About once a week I hop onto cwiki and have autoexport >> > regenerate all the content again. This takes care of the >> > dynamic content in confluence like rss or jira data. >> > >> > The template we use has some good macros at the top, that's >> > the more important part. The html is fairly old -- it's only >> > been tweaked since it was originally created 6-7 years ago. >> > With better stylesheets you can do the same without endless >> > sea of tables. But it doesn't take much to plum in the >> > dynamic content into an existing html template. >> > >> > I do like the servicemix site too, that'd be a great template >> > to yank if you just wanted something small and clean to get started. >> > >> > Hope this helps. >> > >> > -David >> > >> > >> > On Dec 1, 2006, at 6:54 AM, Johnson, Eric wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > Confluence has an export to HTML feature that can be used to export >> > > the content to a static site. >> > > The default export is not too pretty, but it is functional. You can >> > > customize it to look pretty good. See >> > > http://servicemix.org/site/home.html and http:// >> > geronimo.apache.org/ >> > > for examples. >> > > >> > > Perhaps one of their committers would be willing to pitch >> > in and help >> > > get the export looking better? >> > > >> > > >> > >> -----Original Message----- >> > >> From: Carl Trieloff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 9:17 AM >> > >> To: Marnie McCormack >> > >> Cc: [email protected] >> > >> Subject: Re: Web site >> > >> >> > >> Marnie McCormack wrote: >> > >>> Hi Carl, >> > >>> >> > >>> Apologies if there's anything I've misunderstood ..... >> > >>> >> > >>> Imho we should look to export from Confluence to generate >> > >> static web >> > >>> content (see JIRA >> > >> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-99), so we >> > >>> can keep rework to a minimum on the content for the web site. >> > >> >> > >> yes this is what I would like to do, I would like to >> > create a set of >> > >> frames and menus etc that look really good, and then pull >> > 90% of the >> > >> content but linking to it from cwiki. This might mean we need to >> > >> structure the cwiki stuff a bit better. >> > >> >> > >> So I expect that we will do all the text, but would like to get >> > >> professional help to get the look and feel, and portal-ing >> > to cwiki >> > >> content working very smoothly. >> > >> >> > >> Carl. >> > >> >> > >>> >> > >>> Be great to have some professional input, but maybe we >> > can use the >> > >>> text we already have to keep the maintenance low ? >> > >>> >> > >>> Hope I'm on the same page :-) >> > >>> >> > >>> Regards, >> > >>> Marnie >> > >>> >> > >>> On 11/30/06, *Carl Trieloff* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> When we get to the point that we release M1 we should >> > >> update our web >> > >>> site, it is >> > >>> located at http://incubator.apache.org/qpid/. I would like to >> > >>> link the >> > >>> wiki from >> > >>> this site as much as possible. To that end I would >> > like to move >> > >>> some of >> > >>> the content >> > >>> around on the wiki to better facilitate that. For >> > >> example quite a >> > >>> bit of >> > >>> the doc/FAQ >> > >>> etc is common between the different clients and >> > >> brokers, so many just >> > >>> index/ structuring >> > >>> work. >> > >>> >> > >>> In addition I am by no means a web designer, to that >> > >> end if there >> > >>> are no >> > >>> objections >> > >>> I would like to raise a request internally to our >> > >> design team do a >> > >>> version 2 of the >> > >>> web site for us and contribute that back to the project >> > >> under a JIRA. >> > >>> >> > >>> If there are other ideas fire away, >> > >>> Carl. >> > >>> >> > >>> >> > >> >> > >> >> > > >> > >> > >> >
