On 2015-03-08 11:12, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote:
+0.5
I really like the graphics and general idea: that's for sure the way to go!
but before switching, there are some issues to fix, IMHO:
- "Whereas the old pages were basic, the new ones have kind of an unusual dark
theme to them and look unpolished (vs. just plain as the old one)" (copy/paste
of another feedback that perfectly summarised a feeling I could not express
better)
Heh, not really a technical argument ;-) But if people feel it's too
dark, they are more than welcome to submit a patch for something lighter :)
- can we have a link to source? how can we submit patches? how can we test for
ourselves improvement ideas before submitting patches? This is really a good
start, but IMHO, if we don't have community involved in updates, this new site
will loose a great opportunity to have contributors (unless it is a choice to
avoid contributors)
It's under the comdev banner, and as such, is available at
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/projects.apache.org/
- why doesn't this use the CMS for some classical pages? Should not some parts
of the old site be added to the new graphic content? While graphics and
generated content are great, I think that some handwritten content would be
useful (to explain where data come from, for example, or what happened to
DOAP, or how to contribute...)
All excellent points. If you check out the source, you can see that all
doap files have been converted to JSON instead.
As for CMS, I don't see any reason to use the CMS compared to just
editing it in svn - it's 4-5 pages, each around 10 lines of html, not a
500+ page behemoth.
- the idea of online editing is great, but not knowing what happens behind the
scene, I fear to add sub-projects: what sub-projects should be added? can sub-
projects be removed if the addition gives unexpected result?
A delete feature would make sense, yes. As for what can be added, that's
really up to the project, just as it was with the doap files. If you
feel something in your project is a sub project in itself, you can add it.
- what should we do with DOAP? Did I miss some explanations on private@ or
dev@ ML from a project I'm working on?
DOAP will be replaced by the online editing. We haven't contacted
projects about this yet, but on the other hand, I don't think we'd just
change the DNS without letting folks know what we were doing. It's only
been in testing so far. Once it was on the path to becoming something
more official, surely projects would be included more.
But it also requires people other than me to chip in - I only have so
many hands and feet :)
With regards,
Daniel.
Please take this feedback as constructive feedback: I really like the new
site, just need some little improvements to get out of beta and make a public
release :)
Regards,
Hervé
Le vendredi 6 mars 2015 11:52:35 Rich Bowen a écrit :
I'd like for us to go ahead and replace projects.apache.org with
projects-new.apache.org. It now has all the functionality that
projects.a.o has, and much more, and there's no reason to have two sites
up. If you object to moving forward with this, please say so.
[ ] +1, do it
[ ] +0, whatevs
[ ] -1, No (and say why, so we can address the problem)
--Rich
