Re: landing pages for the website

[Aaron Markham <aa...@gmail.com>]

I've created a PR for an ecosystem page. Please let me know your feedback.

https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/pull/11528


On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 2:50 AM, Ivan Serdyuk <lo...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I wonder if there would be a page for a list of startups, which use your
> project (integration)? With details of type of cloud/inter-cloud (private;
> hybrid; big commercail ones)
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 9:44 PM, Steffen Rochel <st...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Aaron - support Mu's suggestion to add an ecosystems page to add links
> > to MXNet related projects (gluon toolkits, mxnet model server, keras,
> onnx,
> > sockeye etc) to promote the solutions in the MXNet ecosystem. What do you
> > suggest as next steps?
> > Steffen
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 5:19 PM Mu Li <mu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for the proposal, Aaron. The landing page idea is great. I feel
> we
> > > should group MXNet topics into landing pages, such as Gluon you
> > mentioned,
> > > also performance, and deployment. But I'm less sure if we want to add
> too
> > > many contents from 3rd party projects into MXNet, otherwise, it may
> make
> > > the MXnet docs have too many dependencies and hard to maintain. We may
> > just
> > > create an "ecosystem" page to add links to all high-quality 3rd party
> > > libraries.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Aaron Markham <
> > aaron.s.markham@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi dev@,
> > > > We've had a lot of great expansions to MXNet's functionality and
> family
> > > of
> > > > tools in recent months. I would like to gauge the temp on what would
> be
> > > > good to highlight, and what would be good as navigation items with
> > actual
> > > > landing pages.
> > > >
> > > > For example, when ONNX was added, being in a contrib package, it was
> > > going
> > > > to totally buried, so it has a navigation item under Docs and a
> landing
> > > > page with some usage details. This page could certainly be enhanced,
> or
> > > > there could also be a landing page for it in the docs folder.
> > > > https://mxnet.incubator.apache.org/api/python/contrib/onnx.html
> > > >
> > > > Gluon needs a new landing page, and could probably be folded into the
> > > Docs
> > > > navigation. Why landing pages? We shouldn't have navigation items
> that
> > > take
> > > > you off of the site without warning. Github would be an exception.
> But
> > > for
> > > > books and tutorials suites that are off-deck, I think it would be a
> > good
> > > > habit to describe what it is and indicate where it goes. The
> tutorials
> > > page
> > > > has this notion with little icons now.
> > > >
> > > > The new Scala infer package will be buried once it rolls off of the
> new
> > > > highlights section of the home page. Maybe we should have navigation
> > > items
> > > > for things like model serving and inference along with landing pages
> > for
> > > > each?
> > > >
> > > > Then we have a couple of projects outside MXNet, but directly add
> > value,
> > > > and could be highlighted with a landing page to describe what it
> does,
> > > how
> > > > to install it, plus links to the projects and some examples:
> > > >
> > > > * MXNet Model Server
> > > > * Keras-MXNet
> > > >
> > > > I'm sure there's more. Let's discuss and promote all these good
> things.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Aaron
> > > >
> > >
> >
>