husted 02/01/29 16:44:50
Modified: xdocs/site jakarta-site2.xml
Log:
Add intro to the "About this Site" page to answer some common questions.
Revision Changes Path
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Index: jakarta-site2.xml
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--- jakarta-site2.xml 12 Jul 2001 16:32:15 -0000 1.12
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<properties>
<author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Jon S. Stevens</author>
- <title>Using the jakarta-site2 module as a dependency</title>
+ <author email="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Ted Husted</author>
+ <title>About the Jakarta Web Site</title>
</properties>
<body>
- <section name="What is this?">
+ <section name="What is the Jakarta Web site?">
+<p>
+The Jakarta Web site is a container for the various products
+hosted by the project. The development team for each product
+maintains their area of the Web site, along with rest of the
+product's documentation.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The main area of the Jakarta site provides some background
+information about the project, and links to common resources,
+like the bug database and mailing lists.
+</p>
+
+</section>
+
+<section name="Why isn't the Jakarta site more user friendly?">
+
+<p>
+The purpose of Jakarta is to <b>develop</b> software, not
+market it. The Web site is functional and easy to maintain,
+since that is what the project requires. We do not have paid
+staff to maintain a consumer-orientated Web site. The
+development teams do the best job they can with maintaining
+the Web site for their product, but it is not reasonable to
+expect the same group of volunteers to both create great code
+and slick Web sites.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+All of our teams are always looking for people to help
+with the documentation and Web site. Getting involved with
+these aspects of the product is no different than
+<a href="getinvolved.html">getting
+involved</a> with the actual code. Find something that
+needs fixing, fix it, submit a patch. Rinse and repeat
+until someone recognizes your hard work, and invites
+you to join the team.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The rest of this page describes how to use the standard
+Site2 module that we use to create the main Jakarta Web
+site, and many of the sub-project sites.
+</p>
+
+</section>
+
+ <section name="What is the Site2 Module">
<p>
The Jakarta-Site2 module is where we store the code for building our
static HTML website. We use XML files as our input and transform them
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