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Posted to dev@servicemix.apache.org by Gert Vanthienen <ge...@gmail.com> on 2011/12/20 15:49:52 UTC
Promote the new website and documentation
L.S.,
With the Apache ServiceMix 4.4.0 release coming up, I would like to move
ahead and promote the new website as well. We haven't really finished the
new look and feel, but we do have a working copy in
http://servicemix.apache.org/staging/ based on the current look and feel of
the website.
A while ago, I stripped all the non-relevant contents from the staged
website and today I added the a new download page too (cfr.
http://servicemix.apache.org/staging/downloads.html) to clarify the
different download options we will have available with 4.4.0. There's
still some content missing but at least the new site does a much better job
at pointing people to ServiceMix 4 instead of earlier editions. That's why
I would like to promote this staged copy somewhere in the next few days and
then iron out the issues as we get feedback from users over the next few
weeks.
If that's OK for everyone, I think the required steps to promote the
website are:
- modify the crontab entries that move the current exported wiki site to
e.g. http://servicemix.apache.org/3.x
- modify the download pages in the new website to look like the 4.4.0 one
- add a link to the old site from the new website
- publish the new website and remove any stale pages left over by the old
export
- (let me know if I missed anything here)
For the documentation, we have been trying in the past to get those pages
to look exactly the same as the main website. The current look for those
pages (http://servicemix.apache.org/docs/4.4.0/) is based on an old
prototype from the main website. How about removing most of that layout
for now and just do something simple with the same icons/color scheme/...
as the main website but without trying to reproduce all the
headers/navigation/...? The downside is that the documentation will not
'blend into' the website as it does now, but it will allow us to make a
more clear navigation for the documentation on itself. Personally, I think
this will be a better solution in the long run anyway, but we can always
blend things together again once we worked out the final look and feel for
the website as well.
Regards,
Gert Vanthienen
------------------------
FuseSource
Web: http://fusesource.com
Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/
Re: Promote the new website and documentation
Posted by Jon Anstey <ja...@gmail.com>.
This all sounds great. I wouldn't worry about L&F right away... better to
get this up so we can start improving content even more :)
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Gert Vanthienen <gert.vanthienen@gmail.com
> wrote:
> L.S.,
>
>
> With the Apache ServiceMix 4.4.0 release coming up, I would like to move
> ahead and promote the new website as well. We haven't really finished the
> new look and feel, but we do have a working copy in
> http://servicemix.apache.org/staging/ based on the current look and feel
> of
> the website.
>
> A while ago, I stripped all the non-relevant contents from the staged
> website and today I added the a new download page too (cfr.
> http://servicemix.apache.org/staging/downloads.html) to clarify the
> different download options we will have available with 4.4.0. There's
> still some content missing but at least the new site does a much better job
> at pointing people to ServiceMix 4 instead of earlier editions. That's why
> I would like to promote this staged copy somewhere in the next few days and
> then iron out the issues as we get feedback from users over the next few
> weeks.
>
> If that's OK for everyone, I think the required steps to promote the
> website are:
> - modify the crontab entries that move the current exported wiki site to
> e.g. http://servicemix.apache.org/3.x
> - modify the download pages in the new website to look like the 4.4.0 one
> - add a link to the old site from the new website
> - publish the new website and remove any stale pages left over by the old
> export
> - (let me know if I missed anything here)
>
>
> For the documentation, we have been trying in the past to get those pages
> to look exactly the same as the main website. The current look for those
> pages (http://servicemix.apache.org/docs/4.4.0/) is based on an old
> prototype from the main website. How about removing most of that layout
> for now and just do something simple with the same icons/color scheme/...
> as the main website but without trying to reproduce all the
> headers/navigation/...? The downside is that the documentation will not
> 'blend into' the website as it does now, but it will allow us to make a
> more clear navigation for the documentation on itself. Personally, I think
> this will be a better solution in the long run anyway, but we can always
> blend things together again once we worked out the final look and feel for
> the website as well.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gert Vanthienen
> ------------------------
> FuseSource
> Web: http://fusesource.com
> Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/
>
--
Cheers,
Jon
---------------
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Re: Promote the new website and documentation
Posted by Freeman Fang <fr...@gmail.com>.
+1
Thanks
Freeman
On 2011-12-20, at 下午10:49, Gert Vanthienen wrote:
> L.S.,
>
>
> With the Apache ServiceMix 4.4.0 release coming up, I would like to
> move
> ahead and promote the new website as well. We haven't really
> finished the
> new look and feel, but we do have a working copy in
> http://servicemix.apache.org/staging/ based on the current look and
> feel of
> the website.
>
> A while ago, I stripped all the non-relevant contents from the staged
> website and today I added the a new download page too (cfr.
> http://servicemix.apache.org/staging/downloads.html) to clarify the
> different download options we will have available with 4.4.0. There's
> still some content missing but at least the new site does a much
> better job
> at pointing people to ServiceMix 4 instead of earlier editions.
> That's why
> I would like to promote this staged copy somewhere in the next few
> days and
> then iron out the issues as we get feedback from users over the next
> few
> weeks.
>
> If that's OK for everyone, I think the required steps to promote the
> website are:
> - modify the crontab entries that move the current exported wiki
> site to
> e.g. http://servicemix.apache.org/3.x
> - modify the download pages in the new website to look like the
> 4.4.0 one
> - add a link to the old site from the new website
> - publish the new website and remove any stale pages left over by
> the old
> export
> - (let me know if I missed anything here)
>
>
> For the documentation, we have been trying in the past to get those
> pages
> to look exactly the same as the main website. The current look for
> those
> pages (http://servicemix.apache.org/docs/4.4.0/) is based on an old
> prototype from the main website. How about removing most of that
> layout
> for now and just do something simple with the same icons/color
> scheme/...
> as the main website but without trying to reproduce all the
> headers/navigation/...? The downside is that the documentation will
> not
> 'blend into' the website as it does now, but it will allow us to
> make a
> more clear navigation for the documentation on itself. Personally,
> I think
> this will be a better solution in the long run anyway, but we can
> always
> blend things together again once we worked out the final look and
> feel for
> the website as well.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gert Vanthienen
> ------------------------
> FuseSource
> Web: http://fusesource.com
> Blog: http://gertvanthienen.blogspot.com/
---------------------------------------------
Freeman Fang
FuseSource
Email:ffang@fusesource.com
Web: fusesource.com
Twitter: freemanfang
Blog: http://freemanfang.blogspot.com