On Jan 7, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>
<snip> >>> Since this is the visitors first impression of the project, I wonder >>> if it is worth exploring further to see if there is a way to address >>> these issues? As I mentioned before, the ASF home page has a "latest >>> activity" panel that avoids both of these problems: >>> >>> http://www.apache.org/ >>> >>> Can we copy what they do? >>> Yes. See below where I show where to find the rest of the code that Rob has tracked down. We can handle it like a feed with ASF::Value type patterns in path.pm Or we can use xslt and parse a file file in view.pm Or a combination. >> >> ummm...not sure about this. We would need to do more thorough investigation >> here. Right now, I can not easily determine how this column is generated -- >> manually vs something else. >> > > I did a little research on how the ASF home page works. > > You cans see the source here: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site/trunk/ > > index.html is here: > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site/trunk/content/index.html > > and Latest Activity looks like this: > > <h3>Latest Activity</h3> > <div class="section-content"> > <p><em>This is an overview of activity going on with our > projects. SVN commits, bug reports, tweets, you name it</em>.</p> > </div> > > {% for e in twitter.list %} > <div class="section-content"> > <a href="{{ e.url }}">@</a>{{ e.title|safe }} > </div> > {% endfor %} > > {% for e in svn.list %} > <div class="section-content"> > <a class="svn" > href="http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?revision={{ e.revision > }};view=revision">r{{ e.revision }}</a> > {{ e.message|safe|truncatewords_html:20 }} ({{ > e.projects|safe }}) — > <a > href="http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html#{{ e.author }}">{{ > e.author }}</a> > </div> > {% endfor %} > > {% for e in jira.list %} > <div class="section-content"> > <a class="bug" href="{{ e.url }}">{{ > e.title|safe }}</a><br/> > {{ e.content|safe|truncatewords_html:20 }} > </div> > {% endfor %} > > </div> > > > > So they are iterating over twitter.list, svn.list and jira.list. But > it is not leaping out at me where that data comes from. Presumably it > is RSS/Atom feeds, but I don't see the glue that connects this. Take a look at www.apache.org's trunk/lib/path.pm: our @patterns = ( [qr!^/index\.html$!, news_page => { svn => ASF::Value::SVN->new(limit => 5), jira => ASF::Value::Jira->new(limit => 5, url => "http://s.apache.org/q4";), announce => ASF::Value::Mail->new(list => 'annou...@apache.org', limit => 3), planet => ASF::Value::Blogs->new(blog => "planet", limit=> 3), blog => ASF::Value::Blogs->new(blog => "foundation", limit=> 3), twitter => ASF::Value::Twitter->new(name => 'TheASF', limit => 3), }, ], [qr!^/dev/index\.html$!, news_page => { svn => ASF::Value::SVN->new(limit => 5), twitter => ASF::Value::Twitter->new(name=>"infrabot", limit => 3), blog => ASF::Value::Blogs->new(blog => "infra", limit=> 3), jira => ASF::Value::Jira->new(limit => 5, url => "http://s.apache.org/lg";), }, ], [qr!^/dev/sitemap\.html$!, sitemap => { headers => { title => "Developer Sitemap" }} ], [qr!^/licenses/exports/index\.html$!, exports => {} ], [qr!\.mdtext$!, single_narrative => { template => "single_narrative.html" }], ); And also view.pm, doap2perl.xsl and list2urls.xsl sub news_page { my %args = @_; my $count=0; for (fetch_doap_url_list()) { my $result = parse_doap($_); next unless defined $result; push @{$args{projects}}, $result; last if ++$count == 3; } return ASF::View::news_page(%args); } sub parse_doap { my $url = shift; my $doap = get $url or die "Can't get $url: $!\n"; my ($fh, $filename) = tempfile("XXXXXX"); print $fh $doap; close $fh; my $result = eval `xsltproc lib/doap2perl.xsl $filename`; unlink $filename; return undef if $result->{pmc} =~ m!^http://attic\.apache\.org!; return $result; } sub fetch_doap_url_list { my $xml = get "http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/infrastructure/site-tools/trunk/projects/files.xml"; or die "Can't get doap file list: $!\n"; my ($fh, $filename) = tempfile("XXXXXX"); print $fh $xml; close $fh; chomp(my @urls = grep /^http/, `xsltproc lib/list2urls.xsl $filename`); unlink $filename; shuffle \@urls; return @urls; } > > But in any case, if this is doable within the CMS -- as it appears to > be -- then one option would be for us to format our news stories as > Atom or RSS feeds. Then those can be sucked into a panel on the > homepage. But the nice thing then is the same logic could be used to > put in a list of new bug reports, or forum posts, or check-ins, or > conference paper submissions, or whatever other useful info we can > find a feed for. We set up a generic capability that could find > other users. The CMS has perl libraries here: URL: https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/build/lib/ASF ./SVNUtil.pm ./Util.pm ./Value/Blogs.pm ./Value/Jira.pm ./Value/Mail.pm ./Value/SVN.pm ./Value/Twitter.pm ./Value.pm ./View.pm Best Regards, Dave > > -Rob > > >> In any case, removing the scrolling styling from the current ssi would >> certainly do away with the bars. If we wanted to keep all the news items in >> one file but only bring in like the last 10 or something, there MAY be a >> way to do that. You could certainly do it either with server side JS or a >> cgi. >> >> Anyway, I will hold up on this change for now I guess. >> >> I agree that the scroll "bars" don't look very professional. I may find >> some nicer looking scrolling mechanism... >> >> >> >>> -Rob >>> >>>> Thereafter all "news" items will not be added to the home page directly >>> or >>>> to /news/index.html, but to /news/newslist.ssi (this is a text file, not >>>> html), LIFO order, maintaining the styling you see for other items there. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> MzK >>>> >>>> "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." >>>> -- Aesop >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> MzK >> >> "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." >> -- >> Aesop
