[DISCUSS] Proposal: Improve branding and user experience of Polaris' website

[Scott Teal <s....@gmail.com>]

Hi everyone,

Since the Polaris site was first stood up, there have been many new
user-facing features and improvements. Documentation has also improved. In
an attempt to better reflect the quality of the Polaris project and
community, attract more community members, and uphold the quality of user
experience of other Apache projects, I'd like to propose updates to
Polaris' website.

This Pull Request <https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/2794> is to serve
as a starting point to gather feedback and form consensus as the website is
a reflection of the entire community. The updates in this PR are primarily
aesthetic, and hopefully do not create additional overhead for
additions/updates to documentation, pages, or the release process now or in
the future.

You can build the proposed updated static site locally just as you can
today here: https://github.com/apache/polaris/blob/main/site/README.md

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal: Improve branding and user experience of Polaris' website

[Jean-Baptiste Onofré <jb...@nanthrax.net>]

Yes it’s definitely a great work !
I did a first review on the PR and I love it

Regards
JB

Le mer. 15 oct. 2025 à 18:59, Yufei Gu <fl...@gmail.com> a écrit :

> I got the chance to see the preview. It looks really good. Thanks for
> driving this, Scott!
>
> Yufei
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM Scott Teal <s....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Since the Polaris site was first stood up, there have been many new
> > user-facing features and improvements. Documentation has also improved.
> In
> > an attempt to better reflect the quality of the Polaris project and
> > community, attract more community members, and uphold the quality of user
> > experience of other Apache projects, I'd like to propose updates to
> > Polaris' website.
> >
> > This Pull Request <https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/2794> is to
> > serve
> > as a starting point to gather feedback and form consensus as the website
> is
> > a reflection of the entire community. The updates in this PR are
> primarily
> > aesthetic, and hopefully do not create additional overhead for
> > additions/updates to documentation, pages, or the release process now or
> in
> > the future.
> >
> > You can build the proposed updated static site locally just as you can
> > today here: https://github.com/apache/polaris/blob/main/site/README.md
> >
>

Re: [DISCUSS] Proposal: Improve branding and user experience of Polaris' website

[Yufei Gu <fl...@gmail.com>]

I got the chance to see the preview. It looks really good. Thanks for
driving this, Scott!

Yufei


On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM Scott Teal <s....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Since the Polaris site was first stood up, there have been many new
> user-facing features and improvements. Documentation has also improved. In
> an attempt to better reflect the quality of the Polaris project and
> community, attract more community members, and uphold the quality of user
> experience of other Apache projects, I'd like to propose updates to
> Polaris' website.
>
> This Pull Request <https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/2794> is to
> serve
> as a starting point to gather feedback and form consensus as the website is
> a reflection of the entire community. The updates in this PR are primarily
> aesthetic, and hopefully do not create additional overhead for
> additions/updates to documentation, pages, or the release process now or in
> the future.
>
> You can build the proposed updated static site locally just as you can
> today here: https://github.com/apache/polaris/blob/main/site/README.md
>