cool website and a cool logo! I would prefer the proposed logo without the boxes on the left to keep it more simplistic, but anyway, this website really helped me. Cheers Christian
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Vincent Siveton <vsive...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Our current website was deployed a loooong time ago and we already > discussed here to make a recast and find a place to put our > documentation. > The related issues could be SHINDIG-283 and SHINDIG-799. > > I propose to go ahead with a Maven based site. For those they are not > aware with this technology, you could always read [1] for more > informations. > Basically, Maven uses inside Doxia which supports several markup formats: > APT (Almost Plain Text), Confluence, Simplified DocBook, FML (FAQ > Markup Language), FO, iText, LaTeX, RTF, TWiki, XDoc (popular in > Apache land), XHTML > For Eclipse users, M2eclipse plugin [2] has an optional Maven Doxia editor. > > Pros: > * having documentation for a given version (ie 1.0.x 1.1.x) and storing in svn > * doc independent on the implementation (ie java PHP) > * reporting > * pdf > > Cons: > * deployment need sync (ASF infrastructure) > * potential learning curve on the Doxia formats > > Ok but where is the website? > http://people.apache.org/~vsiveton/shindig/ > > I am inspired by the Opensocial Foundation website. > > You will see an (unofficial) Shindig logo. I propose also to have a > Logo Contest to find our logo! > I created some logos (in SVG format) and I plan to create a Wiki space > for the contest. > http://people.apache.org/~vsiveton/shindig/logo-contest.html > > All your comments are welcome! > > Cheers, > > Vincent > > [1] http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-site.html > [2] http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/ >
