Ok - I expected (and am actually pleased that its not a free-for-all. I’ll see what has already been updated in this latest flurry of updates and see what I can contribute. Forwarded to you.
Thanks, SCott On 3/5/14, 4:43 PM, "Sebastian Schelter" <s...@apache.org> wrote: >At the moment, only committers can change the website unfortunately. If >you have a text to add, I'm happy to work it in and add your name to our >contributers list in the CHANGELOG. > >Best, >Sebastian > > >On 03/05/2014 04:58 PM, Scott C. Cote wrote: >> I had recently taken the text tour of mahout, but I couldn't decipher a >> way to contribute updates to the tour (some of the file names have >> changed, etc). >> >> How would I start? (this was part of my offer to help with the >> documentation of Mahout). >> >> SCott >> >> On 3/5/14 9:47 AM, "Pat Ferrel" <p...@occamsmachete.com> wrote: >> >>> What no centered text?????? >>> >>> ;-) >>> >>> Love either. >>> >>> BTW users are no longer able to contribute content to the wiki. Most >>>CMSs >>> have a way to allow input that is moderated. Might this make getting >>> documentation help easier? Allow anyone to contribute but committers >>>can >>> filter out the bad‹sort of like submitting patches. >>> >>> On Mar 5, 2014, at 4:11 AM, Sebastian Schelter <s...@apache.org> wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> In our latest discussion, I argued that the lack (and errors) of >>> documentation on our website is one of the main pain points of Mahout >>> atm. To be honest, I'm also not very happy with the design, especially >>> fonts and spacing make it super hard to read long articles. This also >>> prevents me from wanting to add articles and documentation. >>> >>> I think we should have a beautiful website, where it is fun to add new >>> stuff. >>> >>> My design skills are pretty limited, but fortunately my brother is an >>>art >>> director! I asked him to make our website a bit more beautiful without >>> changing to much of the structure, so that a redesign wouldn't take too >>> long. >>> >>> I really like the results and would volunteer to dig out my CSS skills >>> and do the redesign, if people agree. >>> >>> Here are his drafts, I like the second one best: >>> >>> https://people.apache.org/~ssc/mahout/mahout.jpg >>> https://people.apache.org/~ssc/mahout/mahout2.jpg >>> >>> Let me know what you think! >>> >>> Best, >>> Sebastian >>> >> >> >
