Re: New Tapestry Website - Final review (fixed)

[Sebastian Hennebrueder <us...@laliluna.de>]

Sebastian Hennebrueder schrieb:
> Geoff Callender schrieb:
>> Has the page containing Third Party Libraries, Tutorials and Resources 
>> ( http://tapestry.apache.org/ ) been lost in this process?
> Yes but not intentionally. I will add it to the external component menu.
> There is an article section already here 
> http://tapestry.laliluna.de/articles-books.html
It is fixed now
> 
>>
>> Like others, I'm not sure about the accordion-style menu bar.  Maybe 
>> if the text and spacing were reduced it would feel less clunky?
> I feel that the main problem is the user guide in the documentation 
> area. There are just two many entries. I could change the font size back 
> to the old value. I enlarged the font size as I found it more 
> comfortable to read. Let's see if we get a general tendency towards or 
> against this menu style. You can easily test the page without menu by 
> deactivating JavaScript.
>>
>> Keep up the good work.
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>> On 21/09/2009, at 5:49 AM, Sebastian Hennebrueder wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I finished the last open tasks for the new website.  I would 
>>> appreciate, if we get this finished as soon as possible as I need to 
>>> focus on my normal work for the next weeks. In addition, we have to 
>>> continuously update the current status in case changes happen to 
>>> existing docs, so it would be nice to get this in the trunk as soon 
>>> as possible.
>>>
>>> So please core committers, if possible take some time to get this 
>>> finally decided. Most of the work is done anyway, it is more a 
>>> question of getting the content into the subversion repository and 
>>> staging the content.
>>>
>>> The website can be tested here http://tapestry.laliluna.de and you 
>>> can get the current status from my git repository:  git clone 
>>> http://dev.laliluna.de/public/tapestry-website.git/ tapestry-website
>>>
>>> I fixed the broken links reported by Ivano and repaired the JQuery 
>>> documentation in order that the correct menus are always open.
>>>
>>> I integrated the userguide in the website in order to show how it 
>>> would look like.
>>> I discussed with Howard that there are mainly two options to place 
>>> the userguide. Howard points out that the current approach to have 
>>> the user guide integrated in the tapestry project, makes it easier to 
>>> keep it aligned with the source code version and doesn't require a 
>>> second commit to be done. It might be more likely that the doc gets 
>>> updated in that case.
>>>
>>> My proposal is to integrate the userguide into the normal webpage 
>>> because of two reason. We can continously work on the userguide and 
>>> publish updates from time to time without waiting for the next 
>>> release to come out. My strategy for the branches look like this.
>>> The website is published from a 'toPublish' branch. This branch has 
>>> currently the 5.1.0.5 documentation.  We allow this branch to be 
>>> updated as long as the 5.1.0.6 release appears. Then a 5.1.0.5 tag is 
>>> made. The most current work happens as usual in the trunk, but as I 
>>> said before, be might update the current published branch from the 
>>> changes in the trunk. We have a slightly higher effort when adding 
>>> content to the current published version but at least can do it and 
>>> we have still a kind of alignment to the code.
>>>
>>> Both options are possible and it would be nice if this is decided as 
>>> soon as possible. We can change this back at any time. It is more or 
>>> less a copying of about 10 files from A to b and a minimal change in 
>>> two site.xml
>>>
>>> Please state your opinion, if the website proposal is fine or not.
>>>
>>> Andreas pointed out that we might move the new website to GitHub. You 
>>> need to decide as well, if we do this or keep everything in the 
>>> normal subversion repository. My private repo is only a temporarily 
>>> solution.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Best Regards / Viele Grüße
>>>
>>> Sebastian Hennebrueder
>>> -----
>>> Software Developer and Trainer for Hibernate / Java Persistence
>>> http://www.laliluna.de
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Sebastian Hennebrueder
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