Re: Website and Branding Rules

[David Crossley <cr...@apache.org>]

sebb wrote:
> On 4 September 2011 06:18, Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org> wrote:
> > On 2011-08-30, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote:
> >
> >> IMHO our existing site[1] is quite basic and aimed at developers. I
> >> suspect work is needed to bring it into line with the new policy on
> >> trademarks and branding[2]. I'd to take this opportunity to do a wider
> >> refresh.
> >
> >> I would prefer a user centred top level landing page, pushing
> >> developer centred product documentation down to a level.
> >
> > Sounds fine.  But it also likely means it will take longer to make the
> > site conform to the branding reqs.
> >
> > I'm not familiar enough with the mvn site plugin to know how to get
> > anything into the footer, but for the rest of the requirements I don't
> > think it would take too much effort to just make the necessary
> > modifications of adding a few "Apache"s here and "TM"s there.
> 
> We went through this exercise in Commons and HttpComponents.
> 
> This is not easy to do with current Maven, so they both use a
> customised Maven skin with an updated VM template that picks up
> <custom> elements from site.xml.
> 
> You can use the commons skin (it's generic) in your site.xml
> 
> The commons top-level site.xml is here:
> 
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/commons-site/trunk/src/site/site.xml
> 
> Should be easy enough to adapt for RAT.

I will try to help with the brand stuff.
However i do not use Maven so can only tweak and watch:
http://incubator.apache.org/rat/site-publish.html

-David