Rich, Every change has impact. Depending on what the ASF wants to achieve more or less effort is involved.
Best regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > On 01/14/2015 08:28 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: > >> I agree with Daniel that (several) ASF pages could do with an overhaul to >> make them more up-to-date regarding usebility and functionality. >> >> This is inline with what I said earlier in a thread in this mailing list >> (see: >> http://community.markmail.org/message/a73m7slgtqtso3gs?q= >> list:org%2Eapache%2Ecommunity%2Edev+from:%22Pierre+Smits%22+ofbiz), >> with regards how OFBiz could support the ASF. Think managing the projects, >> their contributors and the PMC, as well as iCLA and CCL registration, etc. >> > > > That strikes me as a HUGE amount of data re-entry work. > > > >> See also the online storage of a presentation of a mockup that I >> communicated earlier, via this link: >> http://www.slideshare.net/pierresmits/ofbiz-4-the-asf >> >> Such screens as are proposed by Daniel could be integrated. >> >> With regards, >> >> Pierre Smits >> >> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com/>* >> >> Services & Solutions for Cloud- >> Based Manufacturing, Professional >> Services and Retail & Trade >> http://www.orrtiz.com >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >>> I was having a conversation with Rich (Bowen) some weeks ago, and the >>> sentiment was that our projects page ( projects.apache.org < >>> http://projects.apache.org> ) could use a big overhaul. It's outdated, >>> not very user friendly, doesn't really compile the data into anything >>> useful (mostly just displays "raw" data) and it's difficult to navigate >>> (no >>> search abilities, no actual overviews). >>> >>> Therefore, I propose that the community development project takes over >>> this project from Infra, which has no interest in continuing/maintaining >>> it, and revamps it with both a new site design and a new LDAP/JSON-based >>> information system which would enable people to edit their project >>> details >>> online without having to upload/change RDF files when something happens. >>> This would also mean that everything could be rendered in the browser >>> instead of relying on daily cron jobs to compile the page, and also allow >>> us to add some inspiring/interesting graphical charts and >>> overviews/timelines. >>> >>> I have been working on a proposal that follows these ideas, which is >>> available for preview at http://projects.apache.pw/ for those >>> interested. >>> Only the first two tabs in the menu currently work (and the extensive >>> search feature), but that is still most of what the old site has and then >>> some. I am pondering on moving some of the front page stuff to the >>> 'Timelines' tab instead, feedback is appreciated on this. >>> >>> So, comments, feedback, questions, anything is most welcome, especially >>> comments on whether you: >>> 1) think comdev should be responsible for the projects directory >>> 2) think the proposal looks good/swell/nifty/whatever. >>> >>> A few notes on the search feature: >>> - You can search for virtually anything within a project, types, >>> languages, descriptions, bug-trackers etc >>> - Try typing your committer ID or Apache ID into the box, and it will >>> show >>> all projects you are a part of >>> >>> If there is consensus for moving this into comdev framework and >>> collaborating on this, I will commit the proposal to a sub-folder in the >>> comdev svn repository and ask infra for a VM where we can set this up. >>> >>> With regards, >>> Daniel. >>> >>> >>> >>> With regards, >> >> Pierre Smits >> >> *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com/>* >> Services & Solutions for Cloud- >> Based Manufacturing, Professional >> Services and Retail & Trade >> http://www.orrtiz.com >> >> > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon >
