[dev] Re: Redesigning the Libcloud website [Was: Re: [dev] Switch to semantic versioning; hello Libcloud 1.0.0?]

[Tomaz Muraus <to...@apache.org>]

Forgot to add that there is already an existing issue for this -
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD-286

Jerry, if you are going to work on it feel free to assign the issue to
yourself.


On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@apache.org> wrote:

> Yeah, I wanted to redesign and improve a website (make it more user
> friendly and modern) for a long time. I even started to work on a new
> website powered by Bootstrap more than 6 months ago, but I never managed to
> make much progress.
>
> During the past couple of weeks I was thinking about it again. Since I'm
> not a designer, I think the best course of action would be to put out a
> call for "new design contribution".
>
> I'm pretty sure we have some good designers in the community which could
> help us out :)
>
> If we don't manage to find anyone, another option would be to go the
> BountySource route (https://www.bountysource.com/), but for that we'd
> need to have some small financial backing coordinate the whole thing with
> the ASF...
>
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Jerry Chen <je...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 12, 2013, at 6:29 AM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>> > As noted above, Libcloud has already been used in production for a long
>> > time and the base API has been relatively stable, so I propose we
>> switch to
>> > 1.0.0 after the next release (0.14.0).
>> >
>> > Some of you might say that it's confusing to switch directly from
>> 0.14.0 to
>> > 1.0.0 because 1.0.0 mostly likely won't contain any major changes.
>>
>> +1 to semantic versioning.
>>
>> Perhaps we can use this opportunity to also relaunch the libcloud
>> website? I think it's about time we feature a direct download
>> call-to-action, as well as maybe the current contents of the "Getting
>> Started" page on the front page. Just a thought.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
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